| 单词 | bed-maker |
| 释义 | ˈbed-ˌmaker
[f. bed n. + maker.]
1. One who constructs beds.
c1500Cocke Lorelles B. (1843) 9 Bedmakers, fedbed makers, and wyre drawers; Founders..and broche makers.
2. One who arranges beds for use again, after they have been slept in; the official name in the English universities for old women or men who make the beds and sweep the rooms in college.
1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. 184 Iteme..the bede-maker a pelow. 1552Huloet, Bedde maker, Lectisterniator. 1678Yng. Mans Call. 107 His health..is his best bed-maker, that makes his bed so easie to rest on. 1691Case of Exeter Coll. 18 For fear she should..lose her place of Bed-maker. 1716Cibber Love Makes Man i. i. 21 He never spoke six Words to any Woman in his Life, but his Bed-maker. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 118 A person not unlike an Oxford or Cambridge bed-maker. 1825Bentham Ration. Rew. 337 The barbers, cooks, bed-makers, errand-boys, and other unlettered retainers to the university, are sworn in English to the observance of these Latin statutes.
So bed-making.
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 16 To prevent sizars over heating their brains: bedmaking, chamber-sweeping, and water-fetching, were doubtless great preservatives. 1691Case of Exeter Coll. 19 Her Employ of Bed-making in Exeter Colledge. 1883Glasgow Wkly. Her. 21 Apr. 8/4 Ladies' Baking, Cooking and Bedmaking Aprons. 1885Oxf. Student's Handbk. 235 In addition, {pstlg}7 a year for bedmaking. |
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