Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who frequents ladies' chambers; especially, one who intrigues; a gallant.
- noun A mistress; a concubine.
- noun One who attends in a chamber; a groom of a chamber; a chamberlain.
- noun A chambermaid; a lady's-maid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
- noun obsolete A civilian; a carpetmonger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who attends in a
chamber ; achambermaid . - noun obsolete A
civilian ; acarpetmonger .
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Examples
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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.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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As a chamberer, she waited on Her Grace in the royal bedchamber but did not attend Queen Kathryn in public.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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As a chamberer, she waited on Her Grace in the royal bedchamber but did not attend Queen Kathryn in public.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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As a chamberer, she waited on Her Grace in the royal bedchamber but did not attend Queen Kathryn in public.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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As a chamberer, she waited on Her Grace in the royal bedchamber but did not attend Queen Kathryn in public.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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And Abraham had another son Ishmael that he gat upon Hagar his chamberer.
Gammerstang commented on the word chamberer
(noun) - (1) Frequenter of ladies' chambers; a gallant. --C.T. Onions' Shakespeare Glossary, 1911 (2) One who indulges in wantonness. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850 (3) Chamberers, men of intrigue. Othello. --Rev. Alexander Dyce's Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare, 1902 (4) A woman who attends to a bedchamber; a chambermaid; a concubine. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893 (5) An effeminate man; a carpet-knight. --John Phin's Shakespeare Cyclopaedia and New Glossary, 1902
April 22, 2018