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chamberlain:
1. one who waits on a king or lord in his bedchamber, fig. in Tim. IV. iii. 223; spec. officer having charge of the king's private apartments and household R3 I. i. 123.
2. attendant in an inn in charge of the bedrooms 1H4 II. i. 52.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry IV, 2.1
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