ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chamber-work

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Chamber-work is a noun meaning (euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication.

Meaning

(euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication.

More Meanings

  1. The work of a chambermaid.

Example Sentences

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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