close-stool

suomi-englanti sanakirja

close-stool englanniksi

  1. A pot enclosed in a stool or box; a commode.

  2. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essaye), Folio Society. 2006, p.17:

  3. other Princes,(..)to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber
  4. {{quote-book|en|year=1677|author=Hannah Woolley|title=The Compleat Servant-Maid|location=London|publisher=T. Passinger|page=166|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001

  5. (quote-book) being apprised of their ambush, I got home another way, and by the help of my landlord’s apprentice, emptied a close stool out of the garret window, which did great execution upon them (..)

  6. (quote-book)