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The name close-stool , which makes an appearance in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well of 1606 and John Florio's Montaigne of 1603, was also inspired by the furniture in which it was cased, as was commode .
The word, however, seems to have existed before that, as Shakespeare uses it, also in close conjunction with close-stool, in Love's Labour's Lost , c. 1593, and it achieved an entry in Cotgrave's Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues of 1611.
If one is to go by Florio's use of close-stool, it seems interchangeable with another, less notorious, term for a privy, the ajax.