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(euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication. / The work of a chambermaid.

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chamber-work

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Source Word

chamber-work

euphemistic obsolete uncountable

(euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication. / The work of a chambermaid.

Japanese Meaning

（婉曲的かつ古風な表現において）性行為、すなわち娼婦行為や肉体関係を指す。また、 / 家政婦、特に部屋係の労働、家事の仕事を意味する。

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The old gossip column hinted that the politician's late-night chamber-work had scandalized the town.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

古いゴシップ欄は、その政治家の夜遅い情事が町を騒がせたことをほのめかしていた。

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(euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication.

, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.235:

Jacchinus […] instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.

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Sense（2）

The work of a chambermaid.

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