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How People Used to Wash: The Fascinating History of Laundry
Although revolting by modern hygiene standards, urine, containing ammonia, was an important cleaning agent not only in Roman times, but also in Medieval Europe, when it was referred to as chamber-lye and commonly used as a stain-remover to dissolve grease, loosen dirt, and bleach yellowing fabrics .
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Lye, chamber lye, ashes and urine for washing laundry
Chamber lye was a useful laundry product, even though it couldn't be made into soap. Precious urine collected from chamber pots, its many uses included stain ...
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Curious Questions: Why did people used to wash clothes in urine?
Urine-based cleaning agents, euphemistically known as 'chamber lye', were used well into the 19th century. In a process known as 'bucking ...
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chamber-lye
† chamber-lye ? Obs. exc. dial. (ˈtʃeɪmbəlaɪ, -lɪ) Also 6 -ley, 6–8 -lie, -ly, 7–8 -lee. [f. chamber n. + lye. (Cf. Ger. Kammerlauge in Grimm.)] Urine; esp. as used for washing, etc.1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 135 b, Take Chamberly, and Salte, and seeth them to gether, and washe the ...
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CHAMBER LYE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CHAMBER LYE is urine.
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chamber lye - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
chamber lye (uncountable). (now archaic, regional) Urine, especially as used for domestic or agricultural purposes. [from 16th c.].
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Lye
Often referred to as alkaline hydrolysis, the process involves placing the animal carcass into a sealed chamber, adding a mixture of lye and water and After several hours the chamber will contain a liquid with coffee-like appearance, and the only solids that remain are very fragile bone hulls of mostly
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chamber lye, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
urine standing in a chamberpot. 1571. 1600170018001900. 2000. 1571, [UK], A dictionarie French and English n.p.: Vrine, vrine, chamber lye, ...
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Chamber-lye - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating in the 1570s from "chamber" (privy) + lye, the word means urine used as a detergent.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828 - Chamber-lye
Websters Dictionary 1828 – Online Edition is an excellent reference for classical literature and Bible studies.
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Writer's Reference Center - chamber lye. - fofweb.com
An old term or euphemism for urine or urine mixed with another substance used as a medicine. "She used chamber lye to treat her chapped skin." Return to Top ...
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lye
▪ I. lye, n.1 (laɪ) Forms: 1 léaᵹ, (lǽᵹ), léah, léᵹ, 3 leihe, 4 leȝe, liȝe, (5 legh, leyȝe, leygh(e, lyhe), 5–9 lee, lie, ley, (5–6 leye, le, 7 ly), 5– lye. [OE. léaᵹ (later léah, genit. léaᵹe) str. fem., corresponds to MDu. loghe (Du. loog), OHG. louga (MHG., mod.G. lauge), lye, ON. laug bath:—OTeu...
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Håkon Thelin
Modern "Bartók/Eötvös/Ligeti" (Naïve)
2012: Ensemble Modern "Arnulf Herrmann: Wasser" (EM Medien)
2013: Unni Løvlid "Lux" (Heilo/Grappa)
2014: Telemark Chamber minore/re maggiore (solo double bass, 2014)
Maltstein-suiten (double bass, cello, 2014)
Kristiania (solo double bass, 2014)
Draumkvedet - vil du meg lye
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Morton Subotnick
In 1966 Subotnick was instrumental in getting a Rockefeller Grant to join the Tape Center with the Mills Chamber Players (a chamber group at Mills College Along with Len Lye, he became an artist in residence at the newly formed Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
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Alexandros Mouzas
Commissions
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall: film scores for Tusalava (2012) by Len Lye and Film (2012) by Alan Schneider, Asma Asmaton (2008), Struwwelpeter orchestra
Prima Materia (1996/2005) for orchestra
Shadows Over the City, (1995) suite for chamber orchestra
Chamber music
Handshake Νο III (2009) for
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