bedmaker
noun
a person who makes up beds.
bedmaking
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a word derived from
bedmaker.
Example Sentences
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Its home is in Kenosha, where also is the famed bedmaking Simmons Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
The girls went out with torches in their hands, swift at their work of bedmaking; returning they whispered at the lord Odysseus’ shoulder: “Sir, you may come; your bed has been prepared.”
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Next follows bedmaking, at which the cook or kitchen-maid, where one is kept, usually assists; but, before beginning, velvet chairs, or other things injured by dust, should be removed to another room.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Madeleine did not look at her again, but went severely on with her bedmaking.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
After breakfast she made a brave beginning, only to turn the broom and the bedmaking over to Susan and dawdle about after Paw or celebrate matins in the green aisles of the garden.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
