sickbed

[ sik-bed ]

noun

Origin of sickbed

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at sick¹, bed

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His ailing mother emerged from her sickbed to ask reporters for Lana Turner’s address so she could write her a letter.
The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping | Kaleb Horton | July 23, 2021 | Vox
To prove that this was not so, these men wore the clothes of sick people, and even slept on the sheets taken from the sickbed.
Little Busybodies | Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody
For example, it is not right to leave the sickbed of one dear to us because his pains are unbearable.
Elements of Morals | Paul Janet
The father lay in the parlor, on his sickbed, and groaned and complained and cursed the hour of his birth.
Dame Care | Hermann Sudermann
For the next month his time was almost wholly taken up by the sickbed, and in the first week of December the end came.
Keats | Sidney Colvin

What he wants to see again, he writes now further from his sickbed, are the simple flowers of our spring.
Keats | Sidney Colvin

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