chamberer
English
Etymology
chamber + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəɹə(ɹ)/
Noun
chamberer (plural chamberers)
- (obsolete) A servant who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A gallant; a carpetmonger.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
- I […] haue not those soft parts of Conuersation That Chamberers haue
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chamberer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- rechamber