chamber-work

chamber-work
The work of a chambermaid.

Jacchinus [...] instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.


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