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Sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed
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bundling
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bundling is a concept used for studying the selection of candidates for public office. A voter typically chooses a candidate (or party) for the legislature, rather than directly voting for specific policies. When doing so, the voter is essentially selecting ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "a gathering into a bundle," verbal noun from bundle (v.). Meaning "sharing a bed for the night, fully dressed, wrapped up with someone of the opposite sex" (1782) is a former local custom in New England (especially Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts). ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bundling \bundling\ n. a former custom, especially in New England, in which unmarried couples occupied the same bed without undressing, especially during courtship. See bundle[2] , v. i. the act of binding something into a bundle. the act of shoving hastily; ...
Usage examples of bundling.
In Kongville I sat indoors, breathing canned air under artificial light, and dickered with dudes over bundling bins.
I said, “Mum, Bog strike me dead, I have not taken a bundling companion.
From your voice, your breathing, your heartbeat, and the fact that you are alone in a bundling room with a mature male I extrapolate that you are female human, sixtyfive-plus kilos in mass, and of mature years, on the close order of thirty.
If you think I will accept expensive clothing from a man I’m not even bundling with!
When Sidris got through, Wyoh could have gone bundling without fretting about her disguise.
If you think I will accept expensive clothing from a man I'm not even bundling with!
The women sorting herbs for immediate decoction or bundling sprigs for drying looked up with ready curiosity at Catrice's mother.
Rosarn looked up from bundling sheaves of arrows into oiled skins to save them from salt and damp.
Ryshad ripped off his jerkin and shirt, Sorgrad doing the same and bundling the linen tight.
Oh, I won't say that I would turn him down for a night of bundling if he asked me gracefully.
Oh, I won’t say that I would turn him down for a night of bundling if he asked me gracefully.