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bedchamber|ˈbɛdˌtʃeɪmbə(r)|
Also 4 cha(u)mbre.
[f. bed n. + chamber. Cf. MHG. bettekammere.]
A chamber or room intended for holding a bed; arch. and displaced in common use by bedroom, exc. in reference to the royal bedchamber, as in gentleman, groom, lord, or lady of the bedchamber.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 136 Þe Beste in þe Bed-chaumbre lay bi þe wowe. 1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iv. 66 Her Bed⁓chamber..was hang'd With Tapistry of Silke and silver. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2028/2 Then the Lord Churchill Gentleman of the Bedchamber, followed by Two Grooms of the Bed-Chamber. 1702Ibid. No. 3862/1 The Ladies of the Bed-chamber, Maids of Honour, and other Ladies. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. 70 Those menial offices, which, in the household and bedchamber of a limited monarch, are so eagerly solicited by the proudest nobles. 1789Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 188 We are obliged to have all the six children in our bedchamber to-night. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 248 Letting us know how the parlours and bed⁓chambers of our ancestors looked.
b. attrib., as bed-chamber candle, bedchamber plot, bedchamber-man.
1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. iii. 89 Nor [must] his Bedchamber-men attire him, for feare of high Treason. 1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 46 All the Chamberlains or Bed⁓chamber-men. 1833Macaulay War Success., Ess. (1854) I. 259/1 The great party..was undermined by bedchamber-women at St. James's. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. 32 A bed-chamber candle. 1880Disraeli Endym. lviii, The famous Bed-Chamber Plot..which terminated in the return of the Whigs to office. |