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  • noun archaic bedroom

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Examples

  • I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty; and my bed-room was also freed from its hideous guest.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • “Usually in my bed-room, but sometimes I take my clothing to the bathroom …”

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty; and my bed-room was also freed from its hideous guest.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • The site of the city's first purpose-built indoor parking garage has been transformed into a loft-like rental building that will open in September with some of the highest asking rents in SoHo: One bed-room apartments will start at $6,500 a month.

    Parking Space Becomes Living Space 2010

  • My four brothers were in the back bed-room, my three sisters in the small room at the front.

    The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

  • "There's a secret stair leading down from the Emperor's bed-room to an outside door - no doubt so that he could sneak out for a night's whoring in town without Sissi knowing ... although why he should, with that little beauty waiting to be bounced about, beats me," he added, with fine irrelevance.

    Watershed 2010

  • Contrition not being my style, and useless anyway, I let the storm blow itself out, and later, having ensured that La Prentice was snug in her lair - polishing her knout and sup-ping gin on the sly, I daresay - I raided the pantry and smuggled gingerbread and lemonade to the grandlings 'bed-room, where at their insistence I regaled them with the story of John Brown (suitably edited for tender ears).

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • And now, my dear Severn, when you have read this rantipole page, walk soberly into your bed-room, put on your night cap, heave a sigh, squeeze a tear out if you can, and lament over my unfortunate, sad, lost state; while I roar with laughter at all wise fellows like yourself.

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • She started at every sound; every breath of wind seemed portentous; she listened upon the stairs; she dragged her feeble limbs to the parlour, to be nearer at hand; she forced them back again to her bed-room, to strain her aching eyes out of the window; but still no voice demanded her, and no person approached.

    Camilla 2008

  • So saying, she retired to her bed-room, followed by her two women.

    The Abbot 2008

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