† 1. a. The furnishing of a room. b. concr. Hangings or tapestry for a room. Obs.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 521. What point of chaumbring, stabiling, gardeins, beddis … plesith oon gist, plesith not an othere.
1454. Test. Ebor. (1836), 174. j blake bede with the chawmering of the same.
1480. Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV. (1830), 130. Chamberyng off tapicery white and grene.
† 2. Sexual indulgence, lewdness; luxury, effeminacy. Obs.
1526. Tindale, Rom. xiii. 13. Let vs walke honestly … nether in chamburynge [Wyclif couchis, 1388 beddis) and wantannes.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Chambering, lightnesse, and wanton behauiour in priuate places.
† b. attrib. or adj. Luxurious, effeminate. Obs.
1652. Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 82. Andronicus Palæologus … lived a chambering idle life within his Palace.
3. The providing (of a gun) with a chamber.
1880. Times, 27 Dec., 9/2. The calibre and chambering of the guns.
