chamberer

chamber +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəɹə(ɹ)/

chamberer (plural chamberers)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A servant who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   • 2015, Susan Doran, Elizabeth I and Her Circle, page 200:

     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.

   • 2017, Gareth Russell, Young and Damned and Fair, page 79:

     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, […]

   • 2020, Jacobus De Voragine; ‎Wyatt North, The Golden Legend:

     And then she said to her chamberer: It behoveth us no longer to abide here; and she said: Lady, whither will ye go?

2. (obsolete) A gallant; a carpetmonger.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     I […] haue not those soft parts of Conuersation That Chamberers haue

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine

   • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     […] as a soldier, as a legislator, she adores him most; not as a chamberer, and a carpet-knight.

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