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Webster 1913 Edition
Close-stool
Close′-stoolˊ
,Noun.
A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
Webster 1828 Edition
Close-stool
CLOSE-STOOL
,Noun.
Definition 2024
close-stool
close-stool
See also: closestool and close stool
English
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Noun
close-stool (plural close-stools)
- (historical) A chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box; a commode.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society. 2006, p.17:
- other Princes, […] to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber
- 2003, Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory, The Outstretched Shadow
- "No more midnight treks to the outhouse. No more close-stools or thundermugs a feature of even the most exalted houses in Armethalieh."
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society. 2006, p.17: