Garderobe
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Garderobe is a historic term for a room in a medieval castle. The Oxford English Dictionary gives as its first meaning a store-room for valuables, but also acknowledges "by extension, a private room,
The garderobe at Peveril Castle, Derbyshire, England
Interior of a late 13th-century garderobe at Chirk Castle in Wales.
Close stool
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A close stool was an early type of portable toilet, made in the shape of a cabinet or box at sitting height with an opening in the top. The external structure contained a pewter or earthenware chamber
Garderobe
…other possessions of price: cloth, jewels, spices, plate and money." The term garderobe is also used to refer to a medieval or Renaissance toilet or a close stool. In a medieval castle, a garderobe was usually a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit (akin to a pit latrine) or the moat (like a fish…
Toilet chair
An uphostered close stool at Hampton Court Palace
Italian thunderbox c. 1750
19th-century thunderbox