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the sheets
a. A large oblong piece of linen, cotton (or, formerly, hempen) cloth, used as an article of bedding, one being placed immediately above and one below the person. the sheets, the pair of sheets belonging to a bed; between the sheets (colloquial), in bed.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > sheet
sheetc1250
linclothsa1474
bed-sheet1481
slate1567
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [adverb] > in bed
abedc1300
in, to, out of beda1425
between the sheets1711
c1250 Prov. Ælfred 310 in Old Eng. Misc. 120 Schene vnder schete, and þeyh heo is schendful.
c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 45 No down of fetheres ne no bleched shete Was kyd to hem.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 233 Whan he streyneth hym to streche þe strawe is his schetes.
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 I wull he haue..to ilk of þe too beddis too peyre schetys goode.
1462 in Anstey Munim. Acad. (Rolls) II. 698 A peyr of schets.
1531 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 42 A payre of shettes of holond.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. ii. 16 Cytherea, How brauely thou becom'st thy Bed; fresh Lilly, And whiter then the Sheetes . View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. L14 To steale from the hedge, both the shirt and the sheetes.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 90. ¶7 I was laid very decently between a couple of Sheets.
1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 221 The blankets were thin and the sheets they were sma'.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 216 Bitter barmaid, waning fast! See that sheets are on my bed.
1865 C. E. L. Riddell Maxwell Drewitt xxix When induced to go to bed,..retiring from view between the sheets in his boots, coat, waistcoat, and trousers.
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