close-stool
See also: closestool and close stool
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English close stol, equivalent to close (“enclosed”, adjective) + stool.
Noun
close-stool (plural close-stools)
- (now historical) A chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box; a commode.
- Template:RQ:Flr Mntgn Essays, Folio Society. 2006, p.17:
- other Princes, […] to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 166,[1]
- […] be careful and diligent to all strangers, and see that they lack nothing in their Chambers, which your Mistress or Lady will allow, and that your close stools and Chamber pots be duely emptied, and kept clean and sweet.
- 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 6, in The Adventures of Roderick Random[2], volume 1, London: J. Osborn, page 32:
- Template:RQ:Flr Mntgn Essays, Folio Society. 2006, p.17: