chamber-work

noun — 2 senses

chamber-work

noun
1

Euphemistic, Obsolete Sex; fornication.

  • 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., vol.I, New York, 2001, p.235
2

The work of a chambermaid.

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