Wiktionary
n. A bed sheet used to cover a mattress, i.e. the sheet that one typically lies on.
Usage examples of "bottom sheet".
On the bottom sheet lay a scattering of thin brown twigs I about enough to cover the palm of a hand.
On the bottom sheet lay a scattering of thin brown twigs - I about enough to cover the palm of a hand.
I left the door open and pulled Filmer's bed down into the night position, smoothing the bottom sheet, folding down a corner of the top sheet, as I'd been shown.
The bottom sheet was rumpled, but not twisted or tangled or pulled loose, as she would have expected if she had been really active in her sleep.
Laid under the bottom sheet, the pallet would fold conveniently, safely out of sight with the bed.
He was busy with his task of tucking the bottom sheet into a perfect corner fold.
In the year in which I electronically set down these words, standing in close sight of the end of the twentieth century, I find that I can ordinarily manage with a mere couple of kilograms of that dear crumbly soil, sealed sanitarily in a plastic bag beneath my bottom sheet or mattress.
The bed's covers were thrown back, the bottom sheet rumpled as if by a restless patient.
When you hear the bolt click, come in low, so you'll be in back of that bottom sheet of iron.