Red Chamber

noun

, Canadian Informal.

They show a marked preference for the red chamber under these circumstances while the least attractive colour seems to be blue.

When the traveller had finished supper, he bade good night to all at table, and went up to the red chamber.

But the landlord rubbed his forehead and looked grieved; for he could not let the traveller sleep in the red chamber.

So home, and by and by to bed, Creed lying with me in the red chamber all night.

Capt. George Corwin of Salem who died in 1684, had a calico counterpane in the red chamber in his house.

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