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Definition of close-stool in English: close-stoolnoun historical A covered chamber pot enclosed in a wooden stool. Example sentencesExamples - So they commissioned ornate, decorative close-stools made out of the finest materials, built by the finest craftsmen.
- He was thinking of King Henry VIII's black velvet close-stool studded with 2,000 gold nails.
- In order to make sure of this, the law requires that chamber pots and close-stools be made of gold or silver, and that these metals should be used for nothing else other than jewelry for slaves, thus decreasing its appeal.
- People who have diarrhoea will often go to the close-stool.
- When my great-grandfather wished to read to his family, he reversed the lid of the close-stool upon his knees, and passed the leaves from one side to the other, which were held down on each by the packthread.
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