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Examples of chamber pot in a Sentence
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The bidet originated in France, used by aristocrats as a separate piece of furniture next to the chamber pot.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
There are fleas and chamber pots and thumbed noses and a St. Patrick’s Day picnic that — hold on to your shillelagh!
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
The Hagley collection includes miniature sofa beds, table-beds, and wardrobe-beds, plus a bed that combines bookshelves, a writing desk, and a tiny chamber pot.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
As a result, women and children used chamber pots kept in their bedrooms, and men used an outhouse behind the building, where a makeshift shower had also been rigged.
—Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2023
Waste water from a chamber pot.
—Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 16 May 2022
The room contained only a chamber pot, a wooden chest and three beds.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
Rather than risk sitting in an outhouse next to Bogart, Hepburn opted to use a chamber pot in her cabin instead.
—Curbed, 1 Feb. 2022
Enlarge / Rim fragments of a chamber pot being excavated at a Roman villa site in Sicily.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1540, in the meaning defined above
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“Chamber pot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chamber%20pot. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
Medical Definition
chamber pot
noun
: a bedroom vessel for urination and defecation
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