chambers

noun[plural only]6

1. •
   Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
2. •
   (UK) Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building.

   • [B]e you mannerly to her, because you are to pretend only to be her Squire, to arm her to her Lavvyers Chambers; but I vvill be impudent and baudy, for she must love and marry me. — 1676
3. •
   (euphemistic) Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).

   • [W]heres the chamber gone Ive a holy horror of its breaking under me after that old commode […] — 1922
4. •
   A midmorning break at Eton College.

   • Drury presented himself at Chambers before 11 o'clock school one day with a conspicuous black eye. — 1889
5. •
   (UK, historical) In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.

   • Considerable areas of sea were thus enclosed within the Chambers, particularly on the west coast. — 1974
6. •
   (no longer used) A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.

   • [A]s a rule the chambers were occupied only by Stack, who had been Wilfrid's batman in the war, and had for him one of those sphinx-like habits which wear better than expressed devotions. — 1932