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bed and board
bed and board n 1. sleeping accommodation and meals 2. (Law) divorce from bed and board law US a form of divorce whereby the parties are prohibited from living together but the marriage is not dissolved bed and board
bed and board1. A place to sleep and get daily meals, or the cost of such. Well, the job doesn't pay very much but it provides bed and board, so I'm saving most of the money I earn. Transportation was free, but bed and board set me back $700.2. The house as a symbol of the duties and sanctity of marriage. He left bed and board after 10 years of marriage.See also: and, bed, boardbed and boardLodging and meals, as in Housekeepers usually earn a standard salary in addition to bed and board. This phrase was first recorded in the York Manual (c. 1403), which stipulated certain connubial duties: "Her I take ... to be my wedded wife, to hold to have at bed and at board." Later bed was used merely to denote a place to sleep. See also: and, bed, boardbed and boardLodging and food; by extension, the essentials one works for. Originally the term meant the full connubial rights of a wife as mistress of her household. The marriage service in the York Manual (ca. 1403) states: “Here I take . . . to be my wedded wyfe, to hald and to have at bed and at borde, for fayrer for layther, for better for wers . . . till ded us depart.”See also: and, bed, board |