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
Send him to inspect the needlework and bedmaking; or put a broom into her hands and send him to witness its use.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
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
This, so far as "upstairs" goes, really only leaves bedmaking to be done, and a bed does not take five minutes to make.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
