chamber-fellown.

1535 J. Husee Let. 17 Feb. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/12/90) f. 103 Mr. Skerne his chambre fellowe..is holly at your Ladishippes commaundment.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 297 A fellowe or companion of one companie, a chamberfellow.

1620 I. C. Two Merry Milke-maids ii. ii. sig. H Bernard my friend, and chamber-fellow.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1640 (1955) II. 23 Came my Bro: Richard from Schole, to be my Chamber-fellow at the University.

1686 I. Newton Let. 27 July in Corr. (1960) II. 446 Tis in the hand of one Mr John Wickins who was then my chamber fellow & is now Parson of Stoak Edith.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 448. ⁋5 Chamber-fellows in the Inner-Temple.

1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. xiv. 246 He forgot his breeches, which he had taken with him for fear some of his chamber-fellows should search them.

1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 502 The students were friends and chums, a word so nearly obsolete, that it may be proper, perhaps, to explain it, as meaning ‘chamber-fellows’.

1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 119 The daughter of his chamber-fellow in the Temple, Richard Simonds.

1911 A. F. Leach Educ. Charters & Documents p. xxv In 1209 two clerks, i.e. scholars, at Oxford, were hung for the murder of a woman by their chamberfellow who had run away.

1996 G. J. Toomer Eastern Wisdom & Learning vii. 209 Greaves kept up a friendly correspondence until his death in 1676 with his old chamber-fellow Pococke.