Bed-clothes
coverings for a bed, as sheets and blankets; bedding.
Historical Examples
Lady Louisa Manvers was waiting for her nephew, propped up in bed, clutching the bed-clothes with leaden, corpse-pale hands.
Notwithstanding Mary Cholmondeley
Papa was the Pussycat and she was the little mouse in her hole under the bed-clothes.
Life and Death of Harriett Frean May Sinclair
She turned down the bed-clothes and showed herself quite naked, and without mark or wound.
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories Various
A bloody sweat, oozing from every pore, crimsoned his bed-clothes.
Henry IV, Makers of History John S. C. Abbott
Fumbling among the bed-clothes, he produced a soiled certificate, which he smoothed out and regarded sadly.
McAllister and His Double Arthur Train
She had not seen the babies before, for they were covered by the bed-clothes.
Poppy’s Presents Mrs O. F. Walton
He found himself presently in his room at the paper-shop, and lay biting the bed-clothes, spasm after spasm traversing his body.
The Lord of the Sea M. P. Shiel
He drew from under the bed-clothes the household washing-book.
A Great Man Arnold Bennett
Just then two hospital attendants bore away a corpse, rolled in its bed-clothes.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848 Various
It came away, followed by the sheet and the rest of the bed-clothes.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. Guy de Maupassant
plural noun
sheets, blankets, and other coverings of a bed
n.
also bedclothes, late 14c., from bed (n.) + clothes.
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