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bedroom|ˈbɛdruːm|
[see room.]
1. Room in bed, sleeping room or space. rare.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. ii. 51 Then by your side, no bedroome me deny.
2. A room used or intended to contain a bed or beds; a sleeping apartment. (Now in common use instead of the earlier bed-chamber.)
1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 16 On the other side of the Kitchin shall be the Farmers Bed-roome. 1792Munchausen's Trav. iii. 9 The windows of my bed-room. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 73 The gentlemen of the retinue..were..thrust into a single bedroom.
3. a. attrib. and Comb.
1813Southey Life Nelson I. i. 7 He was lowered down at night from the bed-room window by some sheets. 1816Scott Antiq. I. ix. 208 The Antiquary took up a bedroom candlestick of massive silver and antique form. 1834Dickens Sk. Boz (1836) ser. i. I. 211 Plated bedroom candle⁓sticks. 1905F. H. Burnett Little Princess viii. 120 She shuffled across the attic in her bedroom slippers. 1928J. Cary Castle Corner 455 He had a full inventory of the marriage chamber, including the bedroom china, decorated with primroses. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 80 For bedroom cushions finer fabrics and technique could be used.
b. In extended use, usu. implying sexual relationship; sexy.
[1915E. Pound in Lett. J. Joyce (1966) II. 366 Bed rooms scenes where the audience can be tittivated, eroticised.] 1924M. Arlen Green Hat iv. 112, I thought the editor might take objection to certain passages, as there is some strong bedroom stuff in it. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 41 Here a dean sits Making bedroom eyes at a beef steak. 1953Time 6 July 72/1 It has also been described as a bedroom farce set in a living room. 1959M. Chamberlin Dear Friends & Darling Romans (1960) iv. 41 Italians are bedroom-eyed gigolos. 1967J. Potter Foul Play i. 11 George's wife had blue bedroom eyes.
Hence ˈbedroomed a., having a bedroom; ˈbedroomy a. colloq., characteristic of a bedroom.
1865Pall Mall G. 20 Apr. 3 Eight and nine people were found in the single bedroomed houses. 1866Howells Venetian Life vii. 90 A bed-roomy smell. |