Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who occupies the same apartment with another.
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Examples
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Checkley, in Staffordshire, my quondam chamber-fellow, and late fellow student in Christ Church, Oxon.
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Good Sir, I am a servant, (to use [3722] Seneca's words) howsoever your poor friend; a servant, and yet your chamber-fellow, and if you consider better of it, your fellow-servant.
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Ah, my sweet chamber-fellow, had I lived with thee, then had I lived still! but now I die eternally.
Scene XIV 1909
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For a long time she knelt thus, lapped in happy dreams; then the door opened and in came her chamber-fellow.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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The maid of honor took it from her; then, with a last glance at the mirror, swept towards the door, but on the threshold turned and came back for one moment to her chamber-fellow.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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'Tis not to be imagined the ridiculous stories they have made, nor how J.B. cries out on me for refusing him and choosing his chamber-fellow; yet he pities me too, and swears I am condemned to be the miserablest person upon earth.
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901
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She is writing of Mr. Charles Rich, and says: He was then in love with a Maid of Honour to the Queen, on Mrs. Hareson, that had been chamber-fellow to my sister-in-law whilst she lived at Court, and that brought on the acquaintance between him and my sister.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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'Tis not to be imagined the ridiculous stories they have made, nor how J.B. cries out on me for refusing him and choosing his chamber-fellow; yet he pities me too, and swears I am condemned to be the miserablest person upon earth.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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[13] Thus, too, Scogin and his "chamber-fellow" successively declared to
The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869
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Your lordship sees my poor dog can endure no collar: let him therefore be my chamber-fellow until his throat be healed, when I shall again submit him to your lordship's mandate. '
St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864
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