bedfellow

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He had awakened with Defiance as his bedfellow, and throughout breakfast at the hustler Dairy Lunch sunshine had flickered over the dirty tessellated floor He pranced up to the Souvenir Company's brick building, on Twenty-eighth Street near Sixth Avenue.

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  1. noun A bedmate.
  2. noun One that is closely associated or allied with another: "Stupidity here makes an easy bedfellow, as always, with racialism” (Christopher Hitchens).

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  • Another man said to the lantern-bearer, "It ain't him the next moment my bedfellow was covered with two guns, and addressed Now, Bill, don't make a fuss, but come along quiet." —  Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
  • The man not only broke with his conservative bedfellow, —  Weekly Dig - Humor, News + Nightlife
  • A strange-bedfellow's mix of big businesses and unions had lined up behind Fenty's opponent, Linda Cropp. —  Inc.com
  • The next moment his bedfellow was "covered" with two "guns." —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
  • For several months before his death I was his messmate and bedfellow, and was able to note more fully the tone of earnest piety that pervaded his words and actions. —  The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
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  1. from Middle English bedfelow, -felawe; from bed + fellow.
 

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/ˈbɛdfɛloʊ/
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