bedchambern.
/ˈbɛdˌtʃeɪmbə/, U.S. /ˈbɛdˌtʃeɪmbər/ A chamber or room intended for holding a bed; archaic and displaced in common use by bedroom, except in reference to the royal bedchamber, as in gentleman, groom, lord, or lady of the bedchamber.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > bedroom
clevec825
bedchamberc1390
wardrobea1400
kuchiez kotec1400
garderobe?c1450
cubicle1483
pallet chambera1535
bed-place1566
kitchen chamber1573
bedroom1600
cubiculoa1616
lodginga1616
lodging-room1615
bower1674
ruelle1676
lodging-chambera1684
common chamber1684
sleeping-room1699
hall-bedroom1738
berth1806
bunk-room1855
bed-house1881
cubicule1887
bedder1897
bed1926
sleeping-platform1935
roomette1937
single1963
maid-room1992
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 136 Þe Beste in þe Bed-chaumbre lay bi þe wowe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 66 Her Bed-chamber..was hang'd With Tapistry of Silke, and Siluer. View more context for this quotation
1685 London Gaz. No. 2028/2 Then the Lord Churchill Gentleman of the Bedchamber, followed by Two Grooms of the Bed-Chamber.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3862/1 The Ladies of the Bed-chamber, Maids of Honour, and other Ladies.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 70 Those menial offices, which, in the household and bedchamber of a limited monarch, are so eagerly solicited by the proudest nobles.
1789 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 188 We are obliged to have all the six children in our bedchamber to-night.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 248 Letting us know how the parlours and bed~chambers of our ancestors looked.
Compounds
attributive, as bed-chamber candle, bedchamber plot, bedchamber-man.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers
chamber-deaconc1475
chamberlain1587
chamber man1623
bedchamber-man1643
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > servant of bedchamber
chamberlainc1325
cubicularya1382
cubicularc1425
chamberer?a1439
bedchamber-man1643
bower-thane1845
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 89 Nor [must] his Bedchamber-men attire him, for feare of high Treason.
1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 46 All the Chamberlains or Bed~chamber-men.
1833 T. B. Macaulay War Succession in Spain in Ess. (1854) I. 259/1 The great party..was undermined by bedchamber-women at St. James's.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. iii. 32 A bed-chamber candle.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion II. xxii. 217 The famous Bed-Chamber Plot..which terminated in the return of the Whigs to office.
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