close stoole
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
close (“enclosed”) + stoole (“stool”)
Noun[edit]
close stoole (plural close stooles)
- Obsolete form of close-stool.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, p.17:
- other Princes, […] to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber