bed and board
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bed and board
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From Middle English bed and bord.
noun
- A place to sleep and eat; bed and breakfast; the services provided by an inn or similar establishment. For, alas, the Ideal always has to grow in the Real, and to seek out its bed and board there, often in a very sorry way. No beautifullest Poet is a Bird-of-Paradise, living on perfumes; sleeping in the aether with outspread wings. The Heroic, independent of bed and board, is found in Drury Lane Thea
- Full connubial relations.
Translations
Every language
noun A place to sleep and eat
| Español | cama y alojamiento |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Kost und Logis |
noun Connubial relations
| Deutsch | Tisch und Bett |
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title = {bed and board},
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