bedless


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bedless

(ˈbɛdlɪs)
adj
without a bed
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Adj.1.bedless - without a bedbedless - without a bed; "the cell was bedless"
bedded - having a bed or beds as specified
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These clothes and trinkets they were wearing were as fine and dainty as the shrewdest stretch of the sumptuary laws allowed to people of their degree; and in these pretty clothes, she crying on his shoulder, and he trying to comfort her with hopeful words set to the music of despair, they went from the judgment seat out into the world homeless, bedless, breadless; why, the very beggars by the road- sides were not so poor as they.
New 16-story "bedless" hospitals are being built to perform outpatient surgery and avoid the serious infections (think methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Clostridium difficile that are prevalent in hospitals.
Rubenstein said Simone recently completed the first "bedless hospital" for Montefiore in the Bronx.
He was homeless, or rather bedless, his home being forfeited long ago, and received his "bed ticket" from the roissionary after his confession of salvation.
TENSE: With Reid weeks ago BEDLESS BEAUTY Chantelle looking upset at her flat on Friday
On the third day of bedless mayhem 492 people were left waiting in appalling conditions in A&E departments around the country.
We have a generous benefits system for the hungry, shelters for the bedless (which are often half-empty) and the NHS which strives to help drug addicts: yes, sometimes there are treatment waiting lists, but if the substance-takers are patient, aid eventually comes.
"Come into my bedless bedroom," says John Krasinski, ushering me into a luxurious hotel suite in London.
I was now bedless and unable to choose among the panoply of possible beds I was discovering.
However, the spectre of thousands of bedless visitors in South Africa for the World Cup might not be as alarming as cold statistics might suggest.
The bedless guest stares at the admirable moon-illuminated pine-trees, the shadows of which fall upon the outer walls of the caravanserai.