ˈguest-ˌchamber
A room used for the lodging or entertainment of a guest.
| 1526 Tindale Luke xxii. 11 Where is the gest chamber, where I shall eate myne ester lambe wyth my dissciples? a 1656 Ussher Ann. an. 4037 (1658) 835 He sends Peter and John into the City, telling them that..they should find a guest-chamber ready furnished by the good man of the house. 1732 T. Lediard Sethos II. viii. 213, I will conduct you to the guest-chamber, where you may repose yourself. 1879 Farrar St. Paul (1883) 169 The guest-chambers which were attached to Jewish synagogues. |
| fig. 1686 A. Horneck Crucif. Jesus xxii. 635 How often..hath thy great Master attempted to enter into thy heart and to make that his guest-chamber! |