The story
- French · derived fromchambre
- English todaytoilet room
Originally from French chambre or cabinet de toilette, used for private grooming areas and then euphemistically for the locations of chamber pots and the plumbing fixtures which took their name from the room. Now generally understood as a direct (even impolitely overly direct) reference to the fixtures.
Words from the same roots
Frenchchambre all →
chambré
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.