noun
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(at some universities) a college servant employed to keep students' rooms in order
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a plant that may be grown in a garden bed
Etymology
Origin of bedder
Example Sentences
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The "bedder" had a tiny slot of a window opening on to the kitchens of a neighbouring college: the "sitter" was slightly larger but just as dark.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
Either as a bedder, or a bush in the herbaceous border, or, still more, when grown as a dwarf hedge, its fresh loveliness is a never-ending delight.
From Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley
You know you haf bedder look von de vind as Ah got.
From Great Sea Stories by Joseph Lewis French
Fred and he did not seem to be very pleased to see each other again, and since they always got on my nerves I went into my bedder to finish dressing.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Charles Turley
Before I went into my bedder I looked at my cheque-book, and it gave me no satisfaction.
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Charles Turley
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