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Definition of Bedmate
1. a bed companion [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedmate
Literary usage of Bedmate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"So at last unto his bedmate spake Odysseus of many a rede : " Not yet to the end
of our labour, O wife, are we gotten indeed; Abideth toil unmeasured, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"bedmate, (bed'-mate) ns A bedfellow. BEDPOST, (bed'-post) n. ». The post at the
corner of the bed, which supports the canopy. To BEDRAGGLE, (be-drag'-gl) va ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... a question whether, in the courts of Heaven, he might be found worthy to kneel
on the footstool of her throne, and raise his eyes to his former bedmate. ..."
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