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chamberer

/ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚɚ/

chamberer noun: a high-ranking female servant who attends in a royal's or noble's chamber.

Noun

chamberer (plural chamberers)

  1. (obsolete) A high-ranking female servant who attends in a royal's or noble's chamber.
    • Mary Shelton, who entered as a chamberer in 1567 when she was about 17 years old, was the queen's second cousin on the Boleyn side.2015, Susan Doran, Elizabeth I and Her Circle, page 200
    • Servants sped up and down stairs to this gallery, bringing up plates of food from the Queen's privy kitchen, which then had to be handed over to the maids of honor, pages, or chamberers, […]2017, Gareth Russell, Young and Damned and Fair, page 79
    Synonyms:
    chambermaid
  2. (obsolete) A gallant; a libertine.
    • I[…]haue not those soft parts of Conuersation That Chamberers hauec. 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...
    • […] as a soldier, as a legislator, she adores him most; not as a chamberer, and a carpet-knight.1840, George Darley, “Introduction”, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher

Synonyms of chamberer

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Forms of chamberer

pluralchamberers

Origin of chamberer

From Middle English chamberere, chamberer, from Old French chamberiere, feminine of chamberier; ultimately from Latin cambra (“room”). By surface analysis, chamber + -er.

Questions about chamberer

What does chamberer mean?
Chamberer means a high-ranking female servant who attends in a royal's or noble's chamber.
What part of speech is chamberer?
Chamberer is a noun.
How do you pronounce chamberer?
Chamberer is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚɚ/.
What is the plural of chamberer?
The plural of chamberer is chamberers.

Words near chamberer in the dictionary

  1. chamberbitters
  2. chambered
  3. chambered nautili
  4. chambered nautilus
  5. chambered nautiluses
  6. chamberer
  7. chamberers
  8. chamberesque
  9. chamberful
  10. chamberfuls
  11. chambering

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