Meanings
nounchamber-work (uncountable)
- euphemisticobsoleteuncountableSex; 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.
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 235 - uncountableThe work of a chambermaid.
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