bedmaker

American  

[bed-mey-ker] / ˈbɛdˌmeɪ kər /

noun

1. a person who makes up beds.

2. a person who constructs beds, as a carpenter.

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Other Word Forms

• bedmaking noun

Etymology

Origin of bedmaker

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; bed, maker

Example Sentences

"Is she still housekeeper and bedmaker at Beaumanoir?"

From The Golden Dog by Kirby, William

"And who's to wash it up?" said the bedmaker to her help outside.

From The Longest Journey by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

Pappy was de bedmaker; he made most of de beds outen poplar.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

I am sure, if he found no muses there, he could pick up none at Oxford, where there is not so much as a bedmaker that ever lived in a muse's family.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

As for the bedmaker, she's a dream, a kind of cheerful, innocent nightmare; I never saw so poor an imitation of humanity.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis