chamber foreign

English

Etymology

From foreign (“outside”, obsolete).^[1]

Noun

chamber foreign (plural chambers foreign)

(obsolete, euphemistic) A "room outdoors", an outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- 1297, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle, page 310:
  In to a chambre forene þe gadelyng gan wende.

Synonyms

foreign; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

foreign (as an outhouse)

Related terms

chamber

References

↑ "foreign, adj. and n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1897), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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