Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
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- noun
bedsit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)
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Examples
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Simon Upton/Interior Archive Veere Grenney's apartment in London This room is fondly referred to as "the bedsitter" by its owner, Veere Grenney, the New Zealand-born, London-based designer known for his elegant, pared-down traditional interiors.
The All-In-One Room Rita Konig 2011
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Before your time Iain, but up to the early seventies, you could rent a bedsitter or unfurnished flat for £4 in the West End. Happy days.
Get Your Property Licence or We'll 'Get' You Says Government 2006
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I had a momentary image - very clear, very politically incorrect, and very likely brought on by Pam's mention of the cartoon books I'd once drawn for a little sick girl - of a large talking skunk in a beret, Monsieur Pepé Le Pew, strutting around my daughter's pension (if that was the word for a bedsitter-type apartment in Paris) with wavy aroma lines rising from his white-striped back.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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The job is prestigious but the poor pay barely covers the rent for her rundown bedsitter.
Archive 2007-01-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007
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The job is prestigious but the poor pay barely covers the rent for her rundown bedsitter.
Films of Michael Caine #50: Half Moon Street DAVID BISHOP 2007
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His one spiritual ally is an outcast like himself: a dignified, ageless, diffident, white-haired refugee in rimless spectacles and a shabby suit who teaches German Extra Studies and cello and lives alone in a redbrick bedsitter on the Bristol Road roundabout.
Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003
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Susan lives in the sumptuous 2-bedroom apartment next door to Bug's seedy bachelor "bedsitter."
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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Hazel would be at his bedsitter, her uniform folded neatly over a chair, her face scrubbed of makeup ....
Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984
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The facility will consist of two three-bedroom cottages to accommodate 12 people and a one-bedroom bedsitter.
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Bowen, a supporter of Methodism, welcomed John Wesley (along with William Williams Pantycelyn and others) as a frequent visitor to the house en route from his bedsitter in Bristol (see this post) to Ireland.
BlogCymru.com 2010
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