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

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

She moved in her bed place and turning on her elbow stared at the door, listening.

From Command by McFee, William

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

Before us was a kind of bed place.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

"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