privy chamber

American  

noun

1. a private apartment in a royal residence.

2. Archaic. a room reserved for the private or exclusive use of some particular person.

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privy chamber British  

noun

1. a private apartment inside a royal residence

2. archaic a private room reserved for the use of a specific person or group

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Etymology

Origin of privy chamber

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Rafe is in the king’s privy chamber now, his liaison man.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

So his uncle took him apart into a privy chamber, and there he opened out his heart, and made plain to him all this business.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

When she paid a visit at the house of any of her nobility, at entering the hall she was saluted by the Penates, and conducted to her privy chamber by Mercury.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

By your ladyship's favour, I can soon prove that a Sense is a faculty, by which our queen sitting in her privy chamber hath intelligence of exterior occurrences.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

She walks much in her privy chamber, and stamps with her feet at ill news, and thrusts her rusty sword at times into the arras in great rage.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy