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Wiktionary
n. A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.
Wikipedia
The bedsheet format (also known as large pulp) was the size of many magazines published in the United States in the first quarter of the 20th century. Magazines in bedsheet format were roughly the size of Life but with square spines. While the bedsheet size varied slightly from magazine to magazine, a standard bedsheet size is usually 9¾" x 12".
Dick Eney's Fancyclopedia II gives the following entry:
Bedsheet: A prozine size; 9x12. At various times Amazing, Wonder, Fantastic Adventures, ASF and Unknown Worlds attempted this size. The two latter, at least, were cut down by wartime paper shortage, and possibly by the keening of collectors who found these dimensions accident-prone.The first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, was published in a bedsheet format. Later, most magazines changed to the pulp magazine format, roughly the size of comic books or National Geographic but again with a square spine. Now, many magazines are published in digest format, roughly the size of Reader's Digest, although a few are in the standard roughly 8.5" x 11" size, and often have stapled spines, rather than glued square spines. Knowledge of these formats is an asset when locating magazines in libraries and collections where magazines are usually shelved according to size.
Sometimes the description "bedsheet" has been applied to magazines of the bedsheet size but with stapled rather than square spines.
Usage examples of "bedsheet".
While Cat cleaned the wound with disinfectant the best she knew how and folded a torn section of a freshly laundered bedsheet, Culley answered her questions between grunts of pain.
The pastel flowered bedsheets provided a perfect background for her tanned skin.
After turning on the washer with the load of her bedsheets, she went into the office to do a little paperwork.
Everything they came in contact with, the bedsheets, the pillows, the air itself, began to turn on them.
Without another word, she lifted the bedsheets and climbed in beside him.
She experiments by putting the shards on the bedsheet, spread apart, and discovers that their true colors emerge on a clean white background.
When Firecracker was sure she was gone, he reached down into the recesses of his bedsheets and pulled out a crumpled roll of Teleprompter paper.
He was thinking of Jean Sweet Venable aswarm in bedsheets hundreds of feet straight up.
Solly chatted to her, and Cobbler plied the bedsheet, until the water was hot and the toddies mixed.
Tubes and wires of an IV and an electrocardiogram sprang from his body like thin exterior organs and the lump by his hip beneath the bedsheets suggested he was also hooked up to a colostomy bag.
A couple of bedsheets might have sufficed, but his new landlady was impressed to learn that her boarder was invited to the enthronement, and she had a nephew in the drapery business.
And so, when Frau Heppner was not giving Caroline lessons, she began organizing the bedsheets and other necessaries of the midwife’s art, making that extra room into a birthing-chamber.
When I lifted the squeaking tailgate, the light beam fell on the now bloodstained bedsheet covering Aaron.
I threw open the windows, let in the sweet mountain air, and dumped my bedsheets into a dirty linen basket.
Hazel had to master plain knitting, crochet, and spend hours hemming bedsheets and bath towels.