chamberer
/ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mary Shelton, who entered as a chamberer in 1567 when she was about 17 years old, was the queen's second cousin on the Boleyn side."
- "Servants sped up and down stairs to this gallery, bringing up plates of food from the Queen's privy kitchen, which then had to be handed over to the maids of honor, pages, or chamberers, […]"
- "And then she said to her chamberer: It behoveth us no longer to abide here; and she said: Lady, whither will ye go?"
- "I[…]haue not those soft parts of Conuersation That Chamberers haue"
- "[…] as a soldier, as a legislator, she adores him most; not as a chamberer, and a carpet-knight."
Etymology
From Middle English chamberere, chamberer, from Old French chamberiere, feminine of chamberier; ultimately from Latin cambra (“room”). By surface analysis, chamber + -er.