close stool
necessary stool
night stool

"Close stool", in turn, is itself a euphemism for toilet chair.

I sat down on the closed stool and tried to blot my jeans dry with the towel.

The term is also used for a medieval or Renaissance toilet and for a close stool.

"Dump him on my close stool.

It is a variant of the close stool which was used by adults before the widespread adoption of water flushed toilets.

On the morning of 25 October, he rose as usual at 6:00 am, drank a cup of hot chocolate, and went to his close stool, alone.

The personal power play was surely reserved for the world of the Court beyond the Room of the Close Stool.

The Groom waited on the king while he used the latrine or close stool, and was also in charge of linen and the King's clothes, jewels and tableware.

(-1511) Hugh Denys of Osterley(d.1511), Groom to the King's Close Stool of Henry VII.

A close stool, used from at least the sixteenth century until the introduction of indoor plumbing, was an enclosed cabinet or box at sitting height with an opening in the top, which might be disguised by a folding outer lid.

A Corrody, no doubt the same one, was held in this Priory in 1509 by Hugh Denys of Osterley(d.1511), Groom of the King's Close Stool to Henry VII.

Where servants were employed, it was, of course, usually their job to empty the chamber pots and corn- modes (the contemporary term was close stool) used by their employers this was among the tasks routinely performed by poor students working their way through university.

The above paragraph in the original editions (1726) takes another form, commencing:-"I told him that should I happen to live in a kingdom where lots were in vogue," &c. The names Tribnia and Langdon an not mentioned, and the "close stool" and its signification do not occur.

The Groom of the Stool, officially styled "Groom of the King's Close Stool", in the very earliest times was responsible for assisting the King in the performance of the bodily functions of excretion and ablution, whilst maintaining an aura of royal decorum over the proceedings.

It was sometimes called a necessary stool or a night stool.

It was sometimes called a necessary stool or a night stool.

On a night stool rests, "Message to the Blackman in America," by Elijah Muhammad.