plate-bearers

Updated: May 3, 2025

There would be processions of plate-bearers to the kitchen next door, where a splendid Englishwoman one of those fine square-faced, brown-eyed, cheerful souls had been toiling all day in the heat of oven and stoves to cook enough food for fifty-five hungry people who could not wait for their meals.

Philip Gibbs - The Soul of the War