"chamberware" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From chamber + -ware. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|chamber|ware|id2=substance, kind, or use}} chamber + -ware Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: uncountable

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          "ref": "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",
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          "ref": "1978, Joan Aiken, The Smile of the Stranger, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 139",
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          "ref": "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, page 67, column 2",
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