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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bedchamber
noun
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▪ A door at the end of the room led to my bedchamber, which was simply furnished with bed and clothes chest.
▪ Benedict carried her through the bedchamber door, and, with one booted foot, kicked it to behind him.
▪ Edward Balliol would not be couched down there, but upstairs in one of the principal bedchambers, for sure.
▪ His bedchamber had access to the servant girls' quarters and to the rooms of adolescent girls upstairs.
▪ No, it was thanks to my culinary abilities that Marie-Claude gave me free rein of both her kitchen and her bedchamber.
▪ So I sent Mora home, locked the doors, and took myself to my bedchamber.
▪ The bedchamber was hung with silks which were so fine that they bruised if something brushed against them.
▪ They had brought the harp into her bedchamber for me, all freshly strung.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedchamber

Bedchamber \Bed"cham`ber\, n. A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
--Shak.

Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.]

Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bedchamber

also bed-chamber, mid-14c., from bed (n.) + chamber.

Wiktionary
bedchamber

n. (context archaic English) A bedroom.

WordNet
bedchamber

n. a room used primarily for sleeping [syn: bedroom, sleeping room, chamber]

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Usage examples of "bedchamber".

As soon as the women had disappeared into a room down the corridor, Alec bolted silently for the first bedchamber.

Retreating hastily upstairs, Alec found his new bedchamber brightly illuminated.

A door slammed forcibly, and Alec shrank back as a young man entered the bedchamber and collapsed into a chair.

The door of the inner bedchamber closed behind them, and Bahzell laid the arbalest aside with regret.

Tell that witch, Cailleach, to cast a spell on that bloody bedchamber door and make it melt away.

Still he remained, listening, until he heard the distant clunk of her bedchamber latch falling.

If I discovered that you, for instance, had dared to enter her bedchamber to consort with her while we were in Gravabagalinien, then, notwithstanding our friendship, I would kill you without compunction, and hang your eddre from this tree.

As a child, Samantha had wanted her ensconced nearby whenever she came to spend the night, and had claimed for Adriana the bedchamber on the opposite side of the narrow bathing compartment from her own room.

As for Genevieve Ariella Kingsley, she was ensconced in her own room a short piece down the hall, with Blythe in the bedchamber next door and, as always, ever eager to see to the needs and care of the beautiful little girl, who would grow up with full knowledge of the wonderful couple who had been her real parents.

In truth, I am not certain which was worse, the bedchamber or the festal hall.

He retired to his bedchamber, where the futon, piled with soft quilts, offered an irresistible invitation to rest.

Agitated by the mention of the one Kyn he would kill for nothing, Lucan walked out to the wall of security camera monitors in his bedchamber that displayed different views of the entire nightclub.

And his manliness in the bedchambers of high and mighty lasses throughout Europe.

From abovestairs, she could hear the muffled sounds of door latches clinking into place as her guests entered their respective bedchambers.

The shutters of her bedchamber, swung and latched open, let in the raw thunder of the breakers churned up by strong winds.