chamber pot

Example Sentences

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And if you’re wondering whether money or brains has more power, there’s a scene in which Henrich uses a chamber pot and smugly orders Victor to “flush that for me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

A luxury padded chair bedecked in pewter and sheepskin was located above his chamber pot and a "Groom of the Stool" relocated his evacuations.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2022

Working-class women could be thus catered for, but for the more genteel ladies, a chamber pot in their curtained carriage was the way to go.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2022

Instead of a toilet, you used a chamber pot or an open window in the city, an outhouse with an open pit underneath in the country.

From New York Times • May 13, 2016

Falconer strode heedlessly along, as if daring anyone to empty a chamber pot on his head.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood