bedsit

• “It’s what the estate agent I rented it from euphemistically called a studio and what Mum and Dad unappealingly call a bedsit.”

  Simon & Schuster: Confetti Confidential

• “His mobile number returned "unobtainable", his landline number had been reallocated and he had left his bedsit.”

  The Guardian: 'David, my brother for a year'

• “In the brief first act Leigh shows Jean, a Brummie girl who lives alone in a Kilburn bedsit, having joyless sex with a married man played by Daniel Coonan whose wife suddenly bursts in upon them.”

  The Guardian: Ecstasy - review

• “It is also used as a slang/familiar word for a bedroom that looks more like a junk room where everything is on top of each other - also used for a miserable bedsit, a small, uncomfortable & untidy house.”

  stagiaire - French Word-A-Day

• “In fact, not knowing the place in question was Jacques 'flat, I thought poor Alexix was actually living not too far from your place, in a very messy room/bedsit.”

  stagiaire - French Word-A-Day

• “In Hampstead he moved into a bedsit on the same road as the Nicholsons, which he promptly painted white, and worked in a studio next door to Nicholson's.”

  The Guardian: Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works

• “I dossed down in a bedsit in adjoining Marloes Road – catching a Greenline bus each morning for shifts on the Slough Observer – and Willie and I occasionally laughed and drank in the Princess of Teck local; that summer of 1962 we watched the Pakistanis at Lord's and had a memorable day together at the Wimbledon tennis.”

  The Guardian: Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating

• “The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists.”

  The Guardian: Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works

• “I always think that if things ever go horribly wrong and I have to move into a bedsit, at least I'll still have a real piano that will fit.”

  The Guardian: A room of my own: Dan Gillespie-Sells

• “Anthony has to travel one-and-a-half hours from the palace back to his one-room bedsit, because he can't afford any accommodation closer in.”

  The Guardian: Wealth gap: the moral behind the royal wedding | Aditya Chakrabortty

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