A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to food storage and/or storing kitchenware. Since the pantry is not typically temperature-controlled (unlike a refrigerator or root cellar), the foods stored in a pantry are usually shelf-stable staples such as grains, flours, and preserved foods
Associated with the Buttery in the Great Hall complex I'm not sure what its function was as differentiated from the former Pantry actually means 'bread room' (pan French equals bread) The lower end of a great hall, opposite the lord's dais at the upper end, almost always had three doors: buttery, pantry, and passage to kitchen
A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to food storage. Since the pantry is not typically temperature-controlled (unlike a refrigerator or root cellar), the foods stored in a pantry are usually shelf-stable staples such as grains, flours, and preserved foods
A pantry is a small room or large cupboard in a house, usually near the kitchen, where food is kept. = larder. pantries a very small room in a house where food is kept = larder