Definition of "kitchen-midden" []

• A shell-mound: the literal translation of the Danish kjökkenmödding, kitchen refuse. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "You have lived long enough in the East and, as your writings show, observantly enough, to detect the pearl which lurks in the kitchen-midden, and to note that its lustre is not dimmed nor its value diminished by its unclean surroundings."
• "The stuff reeked like a kitchen-midden, and its touch made Conan's flesh crawl."
• "A gull, seeking the pickings of the kitchen-midden, floated across from the wide free waters of the lagoon."