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English
Noun
bed-chamber (plural bed-chambers)
- Alternative form of bedchamber.
1789 May 27, [John Moore], “Carlostein and Seidlits arrive at Naples”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: A Strahan; and T Cadell, , →OCLC, page 133:[…] Carloſtein hardly uttered a ſentence, as his friend and he returned to their lodgings, where, pretending to be diſpoſed to ſleep, he retired immediately to his bed-chamber, and paſſed the night meditating on the accompliſhments of Laura.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Sense and Sensibility , volume I, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 65–66:These parlors are both too small for such parties of our friends as I hope to see often collected here; and I have some thoughts of throwing the passage into one of them with perhaps a part of the other, and so leave the remainder of that other for an entrance; this, with a new drawing room which may be easily added, and a bed-chamber and garret above, will make it a very snug little cottage.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. , volume I, London: for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 99:Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “In Hetty’s Bed-Chamber”, in Adam Bede , volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fourth, page 312:Her neck and arms were bare, her hair hung down in delicate rings, and they were just as beautiful as they were that night two months ago, when she walked up and down this bed-chamber glowing with vanity and hope.