What does chamber-work mean?
Chamber-work means (euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication..
Jacchinus […] instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.
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Chamber-work means (euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication..
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Jacchinus […] instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.
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