close-stool
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Noun
close-stool (plural close-stools)
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A chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box; a commode.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, p. 17:
- other Princes, [...] to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber
- 2003, Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory, The Outstretched Shadow
- "No more midnight treks to the outhouse. No more close-stools or thundermugs a feature of even the most exalted houses in Armethalieh."
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, p. 17: