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

Three gentlemen-cupbearers, gentlemen-carvers, and servers to the amount of forty in the great and the privy chamber; six gentlemen-ushers and eight grooms.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

He became sewer in ordinary to Charles I., and a gentleman of his privy chamber; and the King, who was particularly fond of him, gave him the royal domain of Sunninghill in Windsor Forest.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

"This is my own privy chamber," said Mr. Bassett to the priest.

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh

In his privy chamber he had his chief chamberlain, vice-chamberlain, and two gentlemen-ushers.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)