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chamberer Obs. or arch.|ˈtʃeɪmbərə(r)|
Forms: 4 chomberier, 4–5 chamberere, chambrer(e, chaumbrere, 5 chambriere, chambryer(e, 5–6 chaumberer, 5–7 chambrier, 6 chambirer, 4– chamberer.
[a. OF. chamberier (mod.F. chambrier, Pr. cambrier, It. cameriere):—late L. camerārius chamberlain, f. camera chamber; also a. OF. chambrière, fem. of the same. The two genders early fell together in Eng., with loss of the significance of final e.]
†1. A woman who attends to a bedchamber; a chambermaid, handmaid. Obs.
The first quot. may possibly belong to sense 3.
1340Ayenb. 171 Þe ssrifte, þet is þe guode chomberier þet clenzeþ þet hous. 1395E.E. Wills (1882) 6, I bequethe to Idkyne my chambrer..a bed couenable for her estat. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiv. iii, Yris, chambrier and messager of Juno. 1483― G. de la Tour G viij b, The ancylle or chamberere of god. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1949/2 Foure gentlewomen that were hir chamberers. 1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. Wks. (1765) 270 The Graces..Shall daily wait upon thy rising, (And never Asian Cavaliers Could boast they had such Chambriers). 1721–33Strype Eccl. Mem. III. i. iv. 36 The Queen's chamberers, viz. Mrs. Dormer, etc.
†2. A concubine. Cf. handmaid. Obs.
c1400Mandeville ix. 102 Abraham hadde another sone Ysmael, that he gat upon Agar his Chambrere. a1450Kt. de la Tour (1868) 30 Chambreres to Englisshe men..that duellen with hem as her lemmannys.
†3. A man who attends in the bedchamber of a nobleman or gentleman; a chamberlain, valet. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Bochas iii. Introd. xviii, And though thy clothing be of purple hewe, With great awaytyng of many chamberers. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 96/3 Thou hast clenly seruantes and nette chambryeres. 1577Holinshed Chron. III. 920/2 He kept in his great chamber a continuall boord for the chamberers and gentlemen officers. 1640Yorke Union Hon. 71 Thomas, who was Chamberer to King Edward the first.
4. One who frequents ladies' chambers; a gallant. arch. (Cf. carpet-knight.)
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 265, I..haue not those soft parts of Conuersation That Chamberers haue. 1822Byron Werner iv. i. 404 You bid me turn a chamberer, To pick up gloves, and fans. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 428 Hotspur is no chamberer. |