Chamber-work
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Sex; fornication. euphemistic, obsolete, uncountable
"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."
- 2 The work of a chambermaid. uncountable
Example
More examples"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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