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Chamber

noun

A natural or artificial enclosed space.

An enclosed volume in the body.

A room where a judge transacts business.

A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly.

A room used primarily for sleeping. Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room.

verb

(past & past part. chambered; pres. part. chambering)

Place in a chamber.

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"Chamber" Quotes from Famous Books

... some of the new-comers were fishing off the rocks, west of the hotel, a shark came close in shore. Hearing their outcries, I looked out of my chamber window, and saw the dorsal fin and the fluke of his tail stuck up out of the water, as he moved to and fro. He must have been eight or ten feet long. He had probably followed the small fish into the bay, and got bewildered, and, at one time, he ...

— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... merry dance whilst clogs were on her spirits, weighing upon every movement. Extravagant joyousness! Dearly purchased pleasure! Yes, dearly purchased, if only with that half hour of dreadful silence and remorse that intervened between the banquet and the chamber—not of sweet slumber and benevolent repose but ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. • Various

... was Philippe de la Salle who designed the silk hangings for the chamber of Marie Antoinette, and who originated the Empire motif of the wreath of laurel; he also designed silks gorgeous with garlands intertwined with ribbon; or decorated with baskets of fruit and flowers; and sometimes he made ...

— The Story of Silk • Sara Ware Bassett

... seen anything at all. His host, for instance, from Helouan, need not have been aware. Night screened it; Helouan, as the whole of modern experience, stood in front of the screen. This thing took place behind it. He crouched motionless, watching in some reconstructed ante-chamber of the soul's pre-existence, while the torrent grew into a ...

— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood

... for my deformity brought me one blessed comfort—that I had no bedfellow. This I felt at first as both a sad deprivation and a painful rejection, but I learned to pray the sooner for the loneliness, and the heartier from the solitude which was as a chamber with ...

— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald

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