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单词 chamber-pleasure
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chamber-pleasure
C2. attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to the bedroom as a place of sexual activity; sexual, wanton’ (cf. bedroom n. 3), as chamber-athletics, chamber-delight, chamber-pleasure, etc. Formerly also with implications of effeminacy (cf. chambering adj.), as chamber-combatant, etc. rare after 18th cent.Recorded earliest in chamber work n. 1. Cf. also chamber-glew n., chamber practice n. (a) at Compounds 4.
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c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 30 Thingis..that makith þe body lene... Etyng of salt metes, drynkyng of oold wyn, ouirmoche to vse chambir worke.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ii. 1352 Hir stewart..On hir gat in chawmyr play A barn.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. x. sig. F7v In the comparison thereof [sc. of hunting] he disdained all chamber delights.
1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. i. 888 Sir Oliver, Sir Randal, base, base chamber-tearmes!
1603 J. Davies Extasie in Microcosmos 243 The Chamber-scapes, The sinnes gainst Nature, and the brutish Rapes.
1613 G. Wither Epithalamia sig. B3v Chamber-combatants; who neuerWeare other helmet, then a hat of Beuer.
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes lxxii, in Wks. I. 788 Thou art started vp A chamber-critick, and dost dine, and sup At Madames table.
a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover v. iii. 124 in 3 New Playes (1655) Will you..exchange your triumphs For chamber-pleasures?
1721 P. Stafford Poems on Several Occasions 43 Three buxom Females crown'd my nuptial Bed..The first I chose my vig'rous Nerves to prove, For Chamber Combats, and Feats of Love.
1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 485/1 This sort of person demands a cold shower and indulges in chamber-athletics.
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