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Pat Reynolds wrote:
>What I remember reading is ... that in the inventories of some early
>settlement or settlements (?New England ?Plimouth Plantation), there
>were lots of references to 'looking glasses', which was a slang term of
>the time for chamber pots.
Try James Deetz, In Small Things forgotten: The Archaeology of Early
American Life, Anchor Books, Garden City, NY, 1977, page 10.
"Numerous listings of 'looking glasses' in inventories of
early-seventeenth-century Plymouth might lead the reader to believe there
was a good supply of mirrors. While this is possible, we learn from the
Oxford English Dictionary that 'looking glass' was a common vernacular term
for chamber pot during the first half of the seventeenth century."
Hope this helps,
LJ Cook
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