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

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

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

With each shock the great capstone of the throne to which I clung jarred farther and farther from its bed place, and my love was coming nearer to me.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

"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

He stepped into the cabin for a moment or two, to find that the lieutenant was lying in his bed place, perfectly insensible, while the marines, with their pieces in hand, were waiting fresh orders.

From In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" by Fenn, George Manville