bed-sitting-roomn.
A room or apartment serving both as a bedroom and as a sitting-room.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room > bed-sitting room
bed-sitting-room1892
bed-sitter1927
combined room1933
bed-sit1938
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. xvi. 29 The bed-sitting-room which they rented was turned into a salon of reception.
1905 G. B. Shaw Passion, Poison & Petrifaction in H. Furniss's Ann. 11/1 In a bed-sitting room in a fashionable quarter of London.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed x. 119 The bed-sitting-room into which he now ushered his guests.
1926 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son i. § 2 A bed-sitting-room for me and the boy.
1933 Archit. Rev. 74 23/1 No one who has seen this will be content with the unhandiness and drab squalor of the usual bed-sitting-room method of living.
1959 House & Garden July 44/1 When the children are older, their play space and bedrooms will be planned as two large bed-sitting-rooms.
Derivatives
bed-sit n. (also bedsit) = main sense.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room > bed-sitting room
bed-sitting-room1892
bed-sitter1927
combined room1933
bed-sit1938
1938 N. Marsh Artists in Crime xv. 225 I'm going to spend the..morning in a chorus lady's bed-sit. in Chelsea.
1957 Oxf. Mag. 293 But pressure for admissions does mean that some freshmen sit disconsolate in a ‘bedsit’ far down the Iffley Road.
1967 Spectator 14 July 53/2 Permanent homes are no longer necessities and a bed-sit mentality has taken over.
bed-sitter n. originally University slang = main sense.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room > bed-sitting room
bed-sitting-room1892
bed-sitter1927
combined room1933
bed-sit1938
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 89 The problem of house-hunting brought with it various technical terms or rather revived interest in them viz...bed-sitter (bedroom and living-room combined).
1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 12 Then book your bed-sitter at the station hotel.
bed-sitter-land n. an area of a town, etc., in which such rooms are commonly found for rent; the world of rented accommodation in bed-sitting-rooms.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas
friars1479
foreign1514
acropolis1570
sestiere1599
shopping district1837
downstreet1865
Latin Quarter1869
midtown1882
club-land1885
flat-land1889
brick area1895
turf1953
grey area1959
office park1963
bed-sitter-land1968
edge city1968
1968 D. E. Allen Brit. Tastes ii. 48 The eight boroughs in the inner western districts [of London] that constitute ‘bed-sitterland’.
1970 Guardian 3 June 7/3 The upshot..of the shifting vote, especially the shifting young votes in bedsitter-land.
1980 M. A. Doody in L. Michaels & C. B. Ricks State of Lang. 121 The addition of the last phrase is irresistibly comic, reminiscent of bed-sitter-land.
1986 Options Apr. 178/3 Serious boys..whose modern elegiac sound seems to..echo the bedsitter land once evoked by Cat Stevens.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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