Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Coverings, such as sheets and blankets, that are ordinarily used on a bed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The coverings used on beds; sheets, blankets, quilts, etc., collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Sheets ,blankets ,quilts or othercoverings used on abed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coverings that are used on a bed
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Examples
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The bedclothes are the exact color of your eyes, which I imagined shining up at me as I made love to you.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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The bedclothes are the exact color of your eyes, which I imagined shining up at me as I made love to you.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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Often there is nothing that can be properly called bedclothes at all — just a heap of old overcoats and miscellaneous rags on a rusty iron bedstead.
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The bedclothes were a festival of natural fibers—cotton, wool, silk, mohair—all flavors of the same pale gray.
Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995
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The bedclothes were a festival of natural fibers—cotton, wool, silk, mohair—all flavors of the same pale gray.
Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995
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The bedclothes were a festival of natural fibers—cotton, wool, silk, mohair—all flavors of the same pale gray.
Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995
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Sometimes Toto manages to get the outermost layer of bedclothes, which is fine.
foldedspace 2008
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The bedclothes were a little mussed, but she probably didn’t last long enough to suffer much.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
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Jessie looked with dismay at the collection of dirty-looking shawls and coats her stepmother was piling on the sofa as "bedclothes," and if she had not been so dead tired, she could never have brought herself to lie down under them.
The Story of Jessie Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895
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"But this bed did not exactly suit our fancy, and, seeing the necessity for some better kind of bedclothes, our wits were once more set to working, in order to discover something with which to fasten together the duck-skins that we had been saving and drying, and of which we had now almost a hundred.
yarb commented on the word bedclothes
'...in the next bed was this, you can only call it 'thing', - no bedclothes, just an official nightdress thing - and while we were telling lies to our one, it started up a sort of whining gurgling wheezing noise.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
July 4, 2008