bedboxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bedbox (複数形 bedboxes)

1. A box-bed.
   • 1967, Researching Design in New York, page 7:

     In the NORTH ROOM, two bedboxes are built into one wall and hung with the same coarse striped silk as the fireplace.

   • 2003, Susan Squires, Danelaw, page 21:

     Her gaze swept the room, taking in the oatcakes cold on the stones of her firebox, the dusty loom she never used, her storage shelf above the bedbox stacked with baskets of dried berries and grain.

   • 2005, Keith Branigan, J. M. Bumsted, From Clan to Clearance: History and Archaeology on the Isle of Barra, C. 850-1850 AD, page 31:

     The oval Norse hut at L15 was a substantial structure, probably with two rooms, a bedbox, and fireplace and was used for a considerable period of time.

2. A nest box.
   • 1892, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Bulletin - Issue 7:

     She was a good deal excited, and ran frantically into and out of her little bedbox, which had a hole at each end. Soon this tiny gust of rage passed over. She now, though running about her cage, indulging in little gambols, indicating grace and agility, struck off into a truly beautiful strain of song.

   • 1984, Cully Gage, The Last Northwoods Reader, page 43:

     We transferred Minnie to her new quarters after dark, carrying her in her bedbox and putting it inside the V-shaped pig house within the pen.

   • 1992, The Pet Bird Report - Volumes 2-4, page 40:

     Kiwi, our green-checked conure, crawled out of her bedbox and loudly demanded attention.

3. (slang) A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed.
   • 1939, The Chinese Medical Journal - Volumes 55-56, page 170:

     The rooms which in the introduction have been described as "bedboxes" are actually only about twice as large as the bed.

   • 2006, Time Out Edinburgh and the Best of Glasgow, page 280:

     It's essentially a budget hotel (the £69 room rate is valid every day), but comes with a reasonably stylish design that sets it apart from most cheapo bedboxes.