bed place

American  

noun

1. a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.

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Etymology

Origin of bed place

First recorded in 1560–70

Example Sentences

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bed place

A couch was to the left, the bed place to the right; my writing desk and the chronometers' table faced the door.

From The Secret Sharer by Conrad, Joseph

Go to bed, place hot bricks to the feet, take nothing but a little gruel or beef tea, and drink moderately of warm, cream-of-tartar water.

From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Steele, Joel Dorman

Then he filled up the bed place, between the poles, with dry leaves.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham

"Did you hear everything?" were my first words as soon as we took up our position side by side, leaning over my bed place.

From The Secret Sharer by Conrad, Joseph

It was a rather high bed place with a set of drawers underneath.

From The Secret Sharer by Conrad, Joseph