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

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Example Sentences

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bed place

The result is that it may be urged into the fissure perhaps even hotter than when it started from the original bed place.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

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 Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Before us was a kind of bed place.

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

They laid him down in one of the little cabins—just a room for a bed place and a camp-stool or two, you know.

From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

At night I would smuggle him into my bed place, and we would whisper together, with the regular footfalls of the officer of the watch passing and repassing over our heads.

From The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

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