Close-stool
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close-stool
(plural close-stools)- (historical) A chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box; a commode.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, p. 17:other Princes, ... to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber
- 2003, Mercedes Lackey, "No more midnight treks to the outhouse. No more close-stools or thundermugs a feature of even the most exalted houses in Armethalieh."