chamberware

English

Etymology

From chamber +‎ -ware.

Noun

chamberware (uncountable)

1. Toiletries that are designed for use in a bedroom, such as bowls with ewers, shaving mugs, chamber pots, soap dishes, etc.
   • 1891, E. P. Powell, “Roadside Gardens. […]”, in L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Elias A. Long, editors, The American Garden: An Illustrated Journal of Horticulture: […], volume XII, New York, N.Y.: The Rural Publishing Company, page 463, column 2:

     I am compelled, within five miles of Utica, to drive through patches of Canada thistles and burdocks, while piles of tin cans, broken chamberware, brush trimmed from neighboring orchards, and every imaginable sort of refuse fill up the street sides.

   • 1978, Joan Aiken, The Smile of the Stranger, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 139:

     He could ill afford to lose a friend like Frederick, let alone as pretty a set of Sèvres chamberware as I’ve seen this seven year.

   • 1988, Harriet Webster, Trips for Those Over 50, Dublin, N.H.: Yankee Books, →ISBN, page 23:

     The “Presidents’ Bedroom,” where the presidents were put up when they came to visit, has an unusually complete set of chamberware, including slop bucket, chamber pot, shaving mug, basins, bowl, and soap dish.

   • 1996, Nick Lyons, “A Country House Inventory: Hagnaby Priory, 1927-1930, Shortly Before Demolition”, in Christopher Sturman, editor, Lincolnshire People and Places: Essays in Memory of Terence R. Leach (1937-1994), Lincoln, Lincs: The Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, →ISBN, page 67, column 2:

     The latter was properly furnished, with single bed, chamberware, chest, a swing glass, Windsor chair and ‘stuffed bird in case’ - although the heating stove was ‘outside door’.