Bedmaker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    someone who manufactures beds
  2. 2
    A bedder. formal, historical

    "Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function."

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"Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function."

Etymology

From Middle English bedmaker, bedmakere, equivalent to bed + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäädmoaker (“bedmaker”), West Frisian bêdmakker (“bedmaker”), Dutch beddenmaker (“bedmaker”), German Bettmacher (“bedmaker”).

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