bed-closet
A very small bedroom or a closet directly adjoining a bedroom, historically common in older British, Scottish, and American homes where space was at a premium.
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A very small bedroom or a closet directly adjoining a bedroom, historically common in older British, Scottish, and American homes where space was at a premium. 'Bed-closet' evokes the compact, ingenious use of limited square footage in older domestic architecture — the kind of arrangement where a curtained alcove or tiny side room serves as a sleeping space. The term appears in period novels and architectural histories as a marker of modest or working-class domestic life.
The old farmhouse had a bed-closet just off the main room where the youngest children slept in a row.
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a small bedroom.
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a closet opening off a bedroom.
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