Close-stool

Alternative forms

• close stoole, close stool, closestool

Origin

close("enclosed") + stool

Full definition of close-stool

Noun

1. (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."