Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seat for the sick or infirm, comprising a tight box with a close-fitting lid to contain a chamber-vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
chamber pot enclosed in astool orbox ; acommode .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What clothes the senators did wear in Rome, what shoes, how they sat, where they went to the close-stool, how many dishes in a mess, what sauce, which for the present for an historian to relate, [733] according to Lodovic.
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By which means it comes to pass, [83] that not only libraries and shops are full of our putrid papers, but every close-stool and jakes,
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Trimalchio retired to the close-stool, after this course, and we, having freedom of action with the tyrant away, began to draw the other guests out.
Satyricon 2007
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The two factions send to him a solemn deputation; and the dalai-lama begins, according to his divine custom, by distributing among them the contents of his close-stool.
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He traces his itinerary in England - memorably tracking his movements "like an animal, by his droppings", thanks to purchases of cotton for Henry's close-stool, "to wipe the nether end" - and recounts his journeys to pagan Lithuania on crusade and to Jerusalem as a pilgrim with descriptive relish.
Review of The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer 2007
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Everything's ready outside, if the call's more serious, water, close-stool, and anything else you'll need.
Satyricon 2007
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He traces his itinerary in England - memorably tracking his movements "like an animal, by his droppings", thanks to purchases of cotton for Henry's close-stool, "to wipe the nether end" - and recounts his journeys to pagan Lithuania on crusade and to Jerusalem as a pilgrim with descriptive relish.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Macalpine made a soldierly retreat with two horses; but the captain was suddenly surrounded and disarmed by the footmen, whom a French valet de chambre headed in this exploit; his sword was passed through a close-stool, and his person through the horse-pond.
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You will be scraped out of the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy.
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Vespasian died in a jest upon his close-stool — Galba with a sentence — Septimus Severus in a dispatch — Tiberius in dissimulation, and Caesar Augustus in a compliment. —
yarb commented on the word close-stool
Citation on stercoraceous.
January 3, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word close-stool
(noun) - A chamber utensil enclosed in a stool or box.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893
January 17, 2018