close-stool
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of close-stool
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
Example Sentences
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For that reason they told us she never visited a close-stool but by proxy.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
From this up rose Trimalchio, and went to the close-stool; we also being at liberty, without a tyrant over us fell to some table-talk.
From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by William Burnaby
One day the king, being on his close-stool, showed Villon the arms of France, and said to him, Dost thou see what respect I have for thy French kings?
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
She, that was the cleanliest creature in the world, never shrank now if you set a close-stool under her nose.
From History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot
A paper from Fortune's close-stool to give to a nobleman!
From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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