| 单词 | chamber stool |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschamber stool chamber stool n. now historical = commode n. 4a; cf. chamber closet n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > close-stool or commode privy stool1377 night-chair1404 close-stool1410 stool1410 chamber stool1567 night table1730 night-stool1781 commode1802 Sir John1808 chamber closet1842 chaise percée1939 thunder-box1939 1567 Doc. 22 Nov. in Port & Trade Early Elizabethan London (1972) (modernized text) 22 6 chamber stools. 1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes vi. f. 167 He had his couerlets of gould for his beds, his Chamber stooles and pottes of siluer. 1608 W. Clerk Withals's Dict. Eng. & Lat. 205 A chamberstoole or pot, lasanum et scaphium. 1853 F. Humphreys Dysentery 49 Perhaps it [sc. dysentery] may also be conveyed by the use in common with the sick, of the chamber stool, privy or point of the clyster. 1954 W. R. Trask in E. Sterba & R. Sterba Beethoven & his Nephew viii. 120 Whole pages of conversations with advising friends center on household utensils and concerns, on pots and pans, the carding of mattresses, thread, a chamber stool, [etc.]. 2004 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 29 Feb. 1 b An unusual structure, it included a bureau, mirror, bookrack, washstand, table, easy chair and chamber stool. < as lemmas |
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