Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A combined bed and lounge; a lounge or plain sofa made so as to open and form a bed.

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Examples

  • The car was fitted out to resemble a comfortable parlor, with three small tables covered with red damask cloths, real chairs, a Roman divan couch, and a bed-lounge.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Sprawling on the bed-lounge he idly called up recent work on his viewer.

    Quozl Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1989

  • He found himself nodding off, the curved sides of his bed-lounge enclosing him pouchlike, the false wood walls arching overhead and the viewer humming softly high above his feet as it disgorged shrunken depictions of ancient massacres.

    Quozl Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1989

  • At night he lay awake for hours under the thick blankets of the bed-lounge, staring upward into the darkness, tormented with the idea of her, exasperated at the delicate, subtle mesh in which he found himself entangled.

    McTeague 1920

  • McTeague made it do for a bedroom as well, sleeping on the big bed-lounge against the wall opposite the window.

    McTeague 1920

  • He fought over every article, over the little iron stove, the bed-lounge, the marble-topped centre table, the whatnot in the corner, the bound volumes of "Allen's Practical Dentist," the rifle manufacturer's calendar, and the prim, military chairs.

    McTeague 1920

  • All at once he heard Marcus Schouler's foot on the stairs; he started up with his fists clenched, but immediately dropped back upon the bed-lounge with a gesture of indifference.

    McTeague 1920

  • Over the bed-lounge hung a rifle manufacturer's advertisement calendar which he never used.

    McTeague 1920

  • Maria Macapa, coming into his "Parlor" to ask for junk, found him flung at length upon the bed-lounge, gnawing at his fingers in an excess of silent fury.

    McTeague 1920

  • The girl looked about the room, noticing the stone pug dog, the rifle manufacturer's calendar, the canary in its little gilt prison, and the tumbled blankets on the unmade bed-lounge against the wall.

    McTeague 1920

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