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Origin of bedmaker
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at bed, maker
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The bedmaker would come in and find him laughing—as he had laughed once before.
From The Prelude to Adventure by Sir Hugh Walpole
His bedmaker, equally peevish, explained how it had happened.
From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
I am sure, if he found no muses there, he could pick up none at Oxford, where there is not so much as a bedmaker that ever lived in a muse's family.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
In lifting the fender to pick it up, a piece of paper caught his eye, which the bedmaker in cleaning the room had swept out of sight in the morning.
From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Stick to college—stick to punch and buttery ale: and never see a woman that's handsomer than an old cinder-faced bedmaker.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
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