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Meaning of chamber-work | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Sex; fornication.
    euphemistic, obsolete, uncountable
  2. The work of a chambermaid.
    uncountable

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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