bed place

American  

noun

1. a space housing a bed or bedding, especially one having the form of a cupboard closed with doors or curtains.

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Etymology

Origin of bed place

First recorded in 1560–70

Example Sentences

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bed place

Above were what looked like cupboards, running round the sides; but the skipper pushed open a sliding door, and showed a bed place.

From For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Turning from the bed place I was again attracted by the man's sparkling ring.

From The Pilots of Pomona by Robert Leighton

Go to bed, place hot bricks to the feet, take nothing but a little gruel or beef tea, and drink moderately of warm, cream-of-tartar water.

From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

They laid him down in one of the little cabins—just a room for a bed place and a camp-stool or two, you know.

From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

At night I would smuggle him into my bed place, and we would whisper together, with the regular footfalls of the officer of the watch passing and repassing over our heads.

From The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad