bedding

The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.

Noun

  1. The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
    • Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do. - 1950 April 5, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway...
    • Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests. - 2008 April 9, Yudhijit...

    Synonyms: bedclothes bedlinen bedsheet

  2. The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
  3. Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.

    Synonyms: litter

  4. A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
  5. The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.

Origin

From Middle English bedding, beddyng, from Old English bedding (“bedding”), equivalent to bed + -ing.

Forms

beddings

Derived

bedding plane crossbedding bedding set carpet bedding bedding plant bedding surface

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bed

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Wikipedia

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