bed-sheet
English
Noun
bed-sheet (plural bed-sheets)Category:English lemmas#BEDSHEETCategory:English nouns#BEDSHEETCategory:English countable nouns#BEDSHEETCategory:English multiword terms#BEDSHEETCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEDSHEETCategory:Pages with entries#BED-SHEETCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BED-SHEET
- Dated form of bedsheetCategory:English dated forms#BEDSHEET.
- 1774 July 6, Robert Arthington, “A Very Extraordinary Cure of the Rheumatism, Performe by Dr. James’s Fever Powders, upon Mr. Robert Arthington, Wholesale Common Brewer, in Leeds. […]”, in Jackson’s Oxford Journal, number 1116, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] W[illiam] Jackson and J. Lister, […], published 17 September 1774, →OCLC, page [4], column 1:
- Accordingly, my ſon bought the Powder of Griffith Wright, Printer, in this town, for 2s. 6d. and about ſeven o’clock that evening, I took five grains of it, in a little currant jelly, about the ſize of a walnut, and was immediately carried to bed in the bed-ſheet, as uſual. […] About ten in the morning, my ſon and ſervant took me up in the bed-ſheet as uſual, and ſet me naked at the bed-feet in the way to an eaſy chair, where I was always wrapped up in the blankets until the bed was made, &c.Category:English terms with quotations#BEDSHEET
- 1854 February 4, [Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga], “Scene in an Italian State Prison”, in Manchester Examiner and Times, volume 6, number 549, Manchester, Lancashire, →OCLC, page 11, column 6:
- This was sufficiently tiresome, for although by dint of pillows and blankets, young blood and good health could get the better of that chill wintry air, within shelter of our bed-sheets, we soon found out that we could be comfortable nowhere else, so deplorably open lay those cruel chambers to all the inclemencies of the season.Category:English terms with quotations#BEDSHEET
- 2002, Michel Faber, chapter 25, in The Crimson Petal and the White, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, →ISBN, part 4 (The Bosom of the Family), page 593:
- With a cry of anguish, she casts the bed-sheets aside, and crawls along the mattress to the foot of the bed, with the scurrying agility of an urchin.Category:English terms with quotations#BEDSHEET