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chamber-work en · NOUN

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  1. (euphemistic, obsolete, uncountable) 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. (uncountable) The work of a chambermaid.