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Chambering   Listen
noun
Chambering  n.  Lewdness. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chambering" Quotes from Famous Books



... folk ye have made me to break the bounds of modesty and the circle of free born women and indulge in idle talk of chambering and wantonness, which beseemeth not people of learning. But the breasts of free-borns are the sepulchres of secrets' and such conversations are in confidence. Moreover, actions are according to intentions,[FN250] and I crave pardon of Allah for myself and you ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... sanctuary, and an intrusion upon the liberties of the kirk. Upon the dangers of listening to the doctrines of a legalised formalist, such as Saddletree, David gave his daughter many lectures; so much so, that he had time to touch but slightly on the dangers of chambering, company-keeping, and promiscuous dancing, to which, at her time of life, most people would have thought Effie more exposed, than to the risk of theoretical error ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... seven shillings of me. You've sworn to bring me to beggary and ruin. I know you swore it when my mamma sent you abroad with me. Oh, why did I come to foreign parts with a wicked, guzzling, gambling, chambering Chaplain, that's in league with the very host and the drawers of this thieving inn against me—that burns me a guinea a night in wax candles, and has had a freehold farm out of me in ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala



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