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語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚɚ/

名詞

chamberer (plural chamberers)

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

   Synonym: chambermaid (in its archaic sense)

   Coordinate term: chamberlain

   • 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 libertine.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine

   • 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

   • 1840, George Darley, “Introduction”, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher:

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

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参考

参照

• “chamberer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• rechamber