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chamberer

noun
/ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚɚ/

Etymology

From Middle English chamberere, chamberer, from Old French chamberiere, feminine of chamberier; ultimately from Latin cambra (“room”). By surface analysis, chamber + -er.

  1. derived from cambra
  2. derived from chamberiere
  3. inherited from chamberere

Definitions

  1. A high-ranking female servant who attends in a royal's or noble's chamber.

    • Mary Shelton, who entered as a chamberer in 1567 when she was about 17 years old, was the queen's second cousin on the Boleyn side.
    • Servants sped up and down stairs to this gallery, bringing up plates of food from the Queen's privy kitchen, which then had to be handed over to the maids of honor, pages, or chamberers, […]
    • And then she said to her chamberer: It behoveth us no longer to abide here; and she said: Lady, whither will ye go?

  2. A gallant

    A gallant; a libertine.

    • I[…]haue not those soft parts of Conuersation That Chamberers haue
    • […] as a soldier, as a legislator, she adores him most; not as a chamberer, and a carpet-knight.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA