Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who frequents ladies' chambers; especially, one who intrigues; a gallant.
- n. A mistress; a concubine.
- n. One who attends in a chamber; a groom of a chamber; a chamberlain.
- n. A chambermaid; a lady's-maid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
- n. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
Examples
“And how well that the cause of eating and drinking be cause of health, she adjoineth with her a perilous chamberer, that is joyousty, which enforceth her oft to perish, so that by the cause it is oft cause of that I would do for health.”
“As a chamberer, she waited on Her Grace in the royal bedchamber but did not attend Queen Kathryn in public.”
“A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died.”
“And Abraham had another son Ishmael that he gat upon Hagar his chamberer.”
“Mr. Piper struggled furiously -- Paris was crawling out of the window -- Paris, the sleek, sly chamberer, the gay hateful cuckoo of his private nest was getting away!”
“Another of the signatories to that petition was Richard Stevenage, who was at that time chamberer of the abbey, and was created abbot on the deprivation of Robert Catton in 1538.”
“And then she said to her chamberer: It behoveth us no longer to abide here; and she said: Lady, whither will ye go?”
“When her chamberer saw that her mistress was dead, she began to weep because she had nothing necessary to bury her with.”
“But notwithstanding, let her chamberer be brought forth here, she is the witness of our felony, so that the leasings of her may be reproved.”
“And when Savina with her chamberer arrived a mile nigh unto Trecane, she said to her chamberer that she would there rest a little.”
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