Meanings
plural bed-rooms
- 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 1171 more example
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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