bedchamber

[bed-cheym-ber]

noun

1. bedroom.

bedchamber

/ ˈbɛdˌtʃeɪmbə /

noun

1. an archaic word for bedroom

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedchamber¹

First recorded in 1325–75, bedchamber is from the Middle English word bedchaumbre. See bed, chamber

Example Sentences

After several tries, the painting she had been trying to hang on the wall was now perfectly centered between the windows of the sunny bedchamber that was being readied for the new baby.

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Still thinking, she closed the door of her bedchamber behind her and headed toward the nursery.

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In the darkness of her cozy bedchamber, with her moss-green bedspread and the drawer pulls in the shape of mushrooms, she could almost pretend she was in the forest already.

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Before that, Serra could most often be found mining France’s centuries past for mordant tableau vivants of corporeal concern, most notably in his protracted bedchamber drama “The Death of Louis XIV.”

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Lloyd retrieved them and placed them with the binoculars in his bedchamber.

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Related Words

• apartment 
• bedroom 
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• cell 
• cubicle 
• hall 
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