| 释义 |
close-stool|ˈkləʊsstuːl|
A chamber utensil enclosed in a stool or box.
1410Wye Acc. in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 546/2, 2 close stoles. 1558Lanc. Wills I. 179 On carven close stole ijs vid. 1601Shakes. All's Well v. ii. 18. 1603 Florio Montaigne iii. xii. (1632) 612 A commodious ajax or easie close-stoole. 1660Milton Free Commw. 428 Chamberlains, Ushers, Grooms, even of the Close-stool. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 449. 1869 E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 620.
b. attrib.
1629Inv. Hatfield Priory in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. New Ser. III. ii. 174, i old leather closestoole chaire. 1640Witts Recreations, By His feather with his close-stool-hat did lye. 1699Garth Dispens. v. (1700) 68 His high Helmet was a Close-stool pan. |