chamberere

• chamberer

Borrowed from Old French chamberiere (“chambermaid”).

chamberere (plural chambereres)

1. Chambermaid, handmaiden.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 818-819:

     I ne heeld me never digne in no manere
     To be your wyf, no, ne your chamberere.

     I considered myself never worthy in any way
     To be your wife, no, nor your chambermaid.

2. Prostitute.

• English: chamberer