bedchamber

3 definitions found

bedchamber - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bedchamber \Bed"cham`ber\, n.
     A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.]
        [1913 Webster]

bedchamber - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bedchamber
      n 1: a room used primarily for sleeping [syn: bedroom,
           sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, chamber,
           bedchamber]

bedchamber - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Bed-chamber
  an apartment in Eastern houses, furnished with a slightly
  elevated platform at the upper end and sometimes along the
  sides, on which were laid mattresses. This was the general
  arrangement of the public sleeping-room for the males of the
  family and for guests, but there were usually besides distinct
  bed-chambers of a more private character (2 Kings 4:10; Ex. 8:3;
  2 Kings 6:12). In 2 Kings 11:2 this word denotes, as in the
  margin of the Revised Version, a store-room in which mattresses
  were kept.