privy chamber
Americannoun
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a private apartment in a royal residence.
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Archaic. a room reserved for the private or exclusive use of some particular person.
noun
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a private apartment inside a royal residence
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archaic a private room reserved for the use of a specific person or group
Etymology
Origin of privy chamber
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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Rafe is in the king’s privy chamber now, his liaison man.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
She was wearing her cap of roses, and though he was locked in his privy chamber she needed no key to enter.
From Old-Time Stories by Perrault, Charles
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
This diwani-khas, or privy chamber, is pointed out as the place where the emperor held his celebrated religious controversies.
From Modern India by Curtis, William Eleroy
She walks much in her privy chamber, and stamps with her feet at ill news, and thrusts her rusty sword at times into the arras in great rage.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy
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