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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1490
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Chaumerare, -er(e, n. [Variant of Chamerare.] A chambermaid. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxi. 385.
Scho gert cal hir chaumerer, & bad hyr say scho wes nere a1400 Ib. 532.
Had nocht helpe bene Of hire chaumerare … He had eschewit of his wil 1490 Irland Mir. I. 137/28.
I am the ȝounge mayde, the humyll chaumerere and seruand of the hie and mychty lord of maieste
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