Chamberware

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Toiletries that are designed for use in a bedroom, such as bowls with ewers, shaving mugs, chamber pots, soap dishes, etc. uncountable

    "I am compelled, within five miles of Utica, to drive through patches of Canada thistles and burdocks, while piles of tin cans, broken chamberware, brush trimmed from neighboring orchards, and every imaginable sort of refuse fill up the street sides."

Example

More examples

"I am compelled, within five miles of Utica, to drive through patches of Canada thistles and burdocks, while piles of tin cans, broken chamberware, brush trimmed from neighboring orchards, and every imaginable sort of refuse fill up the street sides."

Etymology

From chamber + -ware.

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