(n.) An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
(n.) An upper servant of an inn.
(n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
(n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(2) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(3) Karol Mets had moved back from midfield to take Klavan’s position and it was tempting to wonder whether England’s night would be engulfed in frustration when Chambers picked out Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the six-yard area and the substitute could not get a clean contact on his header.
(4) Eaton Square is one of the poshest addresses in London – the rubbish left outside the six-storey houses include empty Pol Roger bottles; one or two buildings have flags (not British) or blue plaques detailing how the likes of Neville Chamberlain once lived there.
(5) Arsenal responded in the only way they know, with Ramsey, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain all involved in intricate passing patterns on the edge of the area, though there was no end product to bother Tim Howard apart from another long shot from Oxlade-Chamberlain that drifted wide.
(6) The backroom staff are aware of the strenuous work the 22-man party – Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain remains in rehabilitation from a medial knee ligament injury – have undertaken in the heat and humidity of Miami and now their base in Urca, Rio de Janeiro, and decided on Tuesday night that their first session in the north would be light despite an outdoor training pitch having been made available by Fifa.
(7) Arsenal had not even led against Chelsea since October 2011 but they passed the ball with the greater incision and fluency in the opening 45 minutes and it was a wonderful finish from Oxlade-Chamberlain.
(8) From the best of them Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s shot came back off the Besiktas goalkeeper, Tolga Zengin.
(9) Add Frederick Bakewell's early fax machine to William Chamberlain's voting machine, and you have the last two Obama campaigns.
(10) Oxlade-Chamberlain sustained the injury in a tackle by Javier Mascherano but Wenger does not attribute any blame to the Argentinian and is also satisfied that the injury is not a recurrence of the knee trouble that kept Oxlade-Chamberlain out of action for several months in 2014.
(11) Democracy for America’s Charles Chamberlain – which had endorsed Sanders weeks ago – was calling the night’s results are “a huge win for Bernie” and “a major upset” for Clinton before Sanders even took the stage.
(12) Roy Hodgson has decided Raheem Sterling should play in this summer's Under-21 European Championship in June but wants to keep Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with the senior team as he prepares for the next World Cup.
(13) With Lallana, Barkley, Sterling, Shaw and Oxlade-Chamberlain in there Hodgson can hardly be accused of playing it safe, even if Lampard has edged ahead of a couple of younger options.
(14) Welbeck might have looked raw at times, conspicuously nervous early on, but he was a tireless runner and the support cast of Alexis Sánchez, Mesut Özil and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain must have been encouraged by the home side’s vulnerabilities.
(15) Lloris clawed Oxlade-Chamberlain’s deflected cross to safety and he saved from Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain, again, in the first half and he kept out Mesut Özil’s shot early in the second period.
(16) Sánchez barrelled through to extend Weidenfeller with a low drive while Oxlade-Chamberlain, on his 100th appearance for the club, hit a marvellous looping shot from Sánchez’s pass that rattled the crossbar.
(17) He said: "[From] where I was, I did not see the difference between Chamberlain and Gibbs as well, so I believe that maybe the referee needs more assistance to make the right decision.
(18) Wenger has already ruled out Oxlade-Chamberlain from Sunday’s Premier League visit to Manchester United but it is likely that he will be sidelined for rather longer.
(19) Andros Townsend, [Alex] Oxlade-Chamberlain's back … but if you are looking at like-for-like pace down the wing, someone who can make, score and create, then Raheem has got a fantastic chance.
(20) And, sadly, that’s true of most bishops.” The only bishop to have publicly acknowledged his homosexuality is Nicholas Chamberlain , bishop of Grantham, who spoke to the Guardian last September after a Sunday newspaper threatened to publicise his relationship.
Chambermaid
Definition:
(n.) A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
(n.) A lady's maid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also ruled inadmissible was the account of a former chambermaid from the Holiday Inn in Leicester, who came forward during his trial with evidence to say she had discovered him in the bath with a girl she believed, but couldn’t be sure, was about 12.
(2) There are tales of hotel chambermaids and shepherds being told to pack their bags, and then come back as hired guns to grab work as and when their former employers require it.
(3) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(4) They also reflected his experience of London and life outside it: Beatie was inspired by Doreen Bicker, a chambermaid at The Bell Hotel, Norwich, where Wesker was working as a kitchen porter.
(5) What about the struggling window cleaner who can only find a few hours, or indeed the hotel chambermaid who’s been reluctantly reinvented as a business?
(6) His first sketch involved Mike or Bernie asking at a hotel for breakfast in bed and winding up in his room with a chambermaid played by Cilla Black.
(7) At various stages of her career she has been a chambermaid, a model and an entrepreneur.
(8) The Mountaintop is a simple two-hander: Martin Luther King talks to chambermaid Carmae in his hotel room.
(9) This is part of the Citizens UK rolling campaign to raise poverty pay for cleaners, security guards, hotel chambermaids and others.
(10) Here, Liliane Bettencourt, 88, the richest woman in France, is waited on by 17 staff, including chambermaids, cooks, hairdressers, nurses and a beautician who undertakes the daily "preparation of her skin" before her makeup is applied.
(11) Substantial and statistically significant excesses of spontaneous abortion were observed in nursing aides, women in sales occupations and food and beverage service; of stillbirth in agriculture and horticulture, leatherwork, and certain sales occupations; of congenital defects in women in child care, certain service occupations, and the manufacture of metal and electrical goods; and of low birth weight in chambermaids, cleaners, and janitors, and in women employed in the manufacture of food and drink, metal and electrical goods, and clothing.
(12) "There was the analogy of the chambermaid in the hotel who sees something go on; you can't pay her because she has a duty of care to the employer.
(13) Five years ago Citizens UK campaigned hard to persuade Hilton to pay the living wage ( in London now £8.80 an hour ), with cleaners and chambermaids waving placards outside their hotels.
(14) The butler has a theory, and so does the second chambermaid.