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==English== |
==English== |
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[[File:CommodeStoolcirca1650.jpg|thumb|A close-stool, circa 1650]] |
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{{wikipedia|close stool}} |
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===Alternative forms=== |
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*[[close stool]] |
* [[close stoole]], [[close stool]], [[closestool]] |
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===Etymology=== |
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From {{inh|en|enm|close stol}}, equivalent to {{af|en|close|gloss1=enclosed|pos1=adjective|stool}}. |
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#* {{RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes}}, Folio Society. 2006, p.17: |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1677|author=w:Hannah Woolley|title=The Compleat Servant-Maid|location=London|publisher=T. Passinger|page=166|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001 |
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|passage={{...}} be careful and diligent to all strangers, and see that they lack nothing in their Chambers, which your Mistress or Lady will allow, and that your '''close stools''' and Chamber pots be duely emptied, and kept clean and sweet.}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1748|author=w:Tobias Smollett|title=w:The Adventures of Roderick Random|publisher=London: J. Osborn|volume=1|chapter=6|page=32|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004833141.0001.001|passage={{...}} being [[apprise]]d of their ambush, I got home another way, and by the help of my landlord’s apprentice, emptied a '''close stool''' out of the [[garret]] window, which did great [[execution]] upon them {{...}}}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=[[w:Mercedes Lackey|Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory]]|title=[[w:The Obsidian Trilogy|The Outstretched Shadow]]|passage="No more midnight [[trek]]s to the outhouse. No more '''close-stools''' or thundermugs a feature of even the most [[exalted]] houses in Armethalieh."}} |
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{{c|en|Toilet (room)}} |
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#*'''1603''', John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, ''Essays'', Folio Society 2006, p. 17: |
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Latest revision as of 02:36, 4 February 2024
See also: closestool and close stool
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English close stol, equivalent to close (“enclosed”, adjective) + stool.
Noun
[edit]close-stool (plural close-stools)
- (now historical) A chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box; a commode.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society. 2006, p.17:
- other Princes, […] to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid[1], London: T. Passinger, page 166:
- […] be careful and diligent to all strangers, and see that they lack nothing in their Chambers, which your Mistress or Lady will allow, and that your close stools and Chamber pots be duely emptied, and kept clean and sweet.
- 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 6, in The Adventures of Roderick Random[2], volume 1, London: J. Osborn, page 32: