[see ROOM.]
1. Room in bed, sleeping room or space. rare.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., II. ii. 51. Then by your side, no bed-roome me deny.
2. A room used or intended to contain a bed or beds; a sleeping apartment. (Now in common use instead of the earlier BED-CHAMBER.)
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Countr. Farm, 16. On the other side of the Kitchin shall be the Farmers Bed-roome.
1792. Munchausen’s Trav., iii. 9. The windows of my bed-room.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., V. 73. The gentlemen of the retinue … were … thrust into a single bedroom.
Hence Bedroomed a., having a bedroom; Bedroomy a. colloq., characteristic of a bedroom.
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 20 April, 3. Eight and nine people were found in the single bedroomed houses.
1866. Howells, Venetian Life, vii. 90. A bed-roomy smell.
