bedchamber

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

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