privy chamber

American  

noun

1. a private apartment in a royal residence.

2. Archaic. a room reserved for the private or exclusive use of some particular person.

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privy chamber British  

noun

1. a private apartment inside a royal residence

2. archaic a private room reserved for the use of a specific person or group

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Etymology

Origin of privy chamber

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Rafe is in the king’s privy chamber now, his liaison man.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

This also agrees with an examination of four other returned mariners of the same ship, taken before Sir Francis Godolphin, and sent by him to master William Killegrue of her majestys privy chamber.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Kerr, Robert

"But I would have had of mine own privy chamber," she said, "which I favour most."—Kingston to Cromwell: Ibid. p.

From History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by Froude, James Anthony

So his uncle took him apart into a privy chamber, and there he opened out his heart, and made plain to him all this business.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

"His privy chamber was provided and furnished with a chair of state placed upon a carpet, with a cloth of state hang'd over it, newly made for the same purpose."

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac