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bed-sitting-room
[f. the ns.]
A room serving both as a bedroom and as a sitting-room. Also (orig. University slang), bed-sitter, whence abbrev. bed-sit, bedsit.
1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. xvi. 29 The bed-sitting-room which they rented was turned into a salon of reception. 1905G. B. Shaw Passion, Poison & Petrifaction in H. Furniss's Annual 11/1 In a bed-sitting room in a fashionable quarter of London. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 89 The problem of house-hunting brought with it various technical terms or rather revived interest in them viz...bed-sitter (bedroom and living-room combined). 1933C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 12 Then book your bed-sitter at the station hotel. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 23/1 No one who has seen this will be content with the unhandiness and drab squalor of the usual bed-sitting-room method of living. 1938N. Marsh Artists in Crime xv. 225 I'm going to spend the..morning in a chorus lady's bed-sit. in Chelsea. 1957Oxford Mag. 293 But pressure for admissions does mean that some freshmen sit disconsolate in a ‘bedsit’ far down the Iffley Road. 1959House & Garden July 44/1 When the children are older, their play space and bedrooms will be planned as two large bed-sitting-rooms. 1967Spectator 14 July 53/2 Permanent homes are no longer necessities and a bed-sit mentality has taken over.
Hence bed-sitter-land, an area of a town, etc., in which such rooms are commonly found for rent; the world of rented accommodation in bed-sitting-rooms.
1968D. E. Allen British Tastes ii. 48 The eight boroughs in the inner western districts [of London] that constitute ‘bed-sitterland’. 1970Guardian 3 June 7/3 The upshot..of the shifting vote, especially the shifting young votes in bedsitter-land. 1980M. A. Doody in Michaels & Ricks State of Lang. 121 The addition of the last phrase is irresistibly comic, reminiscent of bed-sitter-land. 1986Options Apr. 178/3 Serious boys..whose modern elegiac sound seems to..echo the bedsitter land once evoked by Cat Stevens. |