Bedchamber
[bed,tʃeimbә]
Definition
(n.) A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
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Examples
- The girl had a little parlour to sit in, away from the noise of the taproom, and a clean bedchamber at the top of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When I entered the bedchamber, and softly approached the bedside by the dim flicker of the night-lamp, my wife was asleep. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In your bedchamber I know you _cannot_ have a fire. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In a quarter of an hour I was ready to be taken up to my bedchamber. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Another means of preserving health, to be attended to, is the having a constant supply of fresh air in your bedchamber. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Flora, now permanently heavy, did not release Arthur from the survey of the house, until it had extended even to his old garret bedchamber. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And she ran into her adjoining bedchamber, tied on her bonnet in a flutter, came out with her shawl on her arm, and ordered Dobbin to follow. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Pickwick seized the watch in triumph, and proceeded to retrace his steps to his bedchamber. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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