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bedtime|ˈbɛdtaɪm|
[see time.]
a. The hour or time for going to bed. fig. = ‘hour of death.’
a1250Owl & Night. 324 Ich singe an eve..And soththe won hit is bed-time. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 34 What dances shall we haue..Between our after supper, and bedtime? 1743Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 62 The Lord's prayer, which they were made say at rising and bed-time. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxvii. 406 Master opens it, and reads the label, ‘Draught to be taken at bedtime’.
fig.1870Alford in Life (1873) 457, I only hope the Master's work may be got done by bedtime.
b. attrib. bedtime story, a story told (to a child) at bedtime; also fig.
1894S. Fiske Jack's Partner iv. §iii. 80 Rose had suggested this partnership to John during a bed-time conference. 1899(title, Blackie & Son) Bedtime Stories, a picture-book for little folk. 1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iii. 254 Racing results and bed-time stories. 1940A. Hocking Wicked Flee viii. 173 If we come to the conclusion that it's all just a bedtime story, you're left to assume that Lavinia is unhinged. |