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chamberware

chamberware noun: toiletries that are designed for use in a bedroom, such as bowls with ewers, shaving mugs, chamber pots, soap dishes, etc.

Noun

chamberware (uncountable)

  1. Toiletries that are designed for use in a bedroom, such as bowls with ewers, shaving mugs, chamber pots, soap dishes, etc.
    • 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.1891, E. P. Powell, “Roadside Gardens. […]”, in L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Elias A. Long, editors, The American Garden: An Illustrated Journal of Horticulture: […], volume XII, New York, N.Y.: The...
    • He could ill afford to lose a friend like Frederick, let alone as pretty a set of Sèvres chamberware as I’ve seen this seven year.1978, Joan Aiken, The Smile of the Stranger, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 139

Origin of chamberware

From chamber + -ware.

Questions about chamberware

What does chamberware mean?
Chamberware means toiletries that are designed for use in a bedroom, such as bowls with ewers, shaving mugs, chamber pots, soap dishes, etc.
What part of speech is chamberware?
Chamberware is a noun.

Words near chamberware in the dictionary

  1. chamberslides
  2. chamberstick
  3. chambersticks
  4. Chambertin
  5. Chambertins
  6. chamberware
  7. chamberwoman
  8. chamberwomen
  9. Chambigne
  10. chambira
  11. Chambishi

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