bed-room

A form of bedroom — A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

Meanings

nounbed-room (plural bed-rooms)

plural bed-rooms

  1. archaicArchaic form of bedroom.

    Harriet slept at Hartfield that night. For some weeks past she had been spending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have a bed-room appropriated to herself; and Emma judged it best in every respect, safest and kindest, to keep her with them as much as possible just at present.

    1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 117
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    Her bed-room—one of those spacious, yet low, paneled apartments, warm and gloomy, in which cowards at night—and I can speak from experience—are wont to require a rushlight, and apt to look under beds, and into closets, and to bolt and lock doors, was at a very remote part of the house, and was almost the last of a suite of sleeping-rooms, or dressing-rooms, which were now trimmed out for the expected visitors to the hall.

    1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 110–111
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