Bed
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"When Christianity had acquired some power, its priests lifted up their voices against intemperance. They declaimed against the length of meals which violated all prudence by surrounding persons by every species of voluptuousness. Devoted by choice to an austere regimen, they placed gourmandise in the list of capital sins, and rigidly commented on the mingling of sexes and the use of beds, a habit which they said produced the luxury they deplored."--The Physiology of Taste (1825) by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |
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- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.
- A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.
- A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".
- The bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed".
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
- A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed, as a "bed of lettuce".
- A deposit of ore, coal etc.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor.
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See also
- Deathbed
- Socrates's metaphor of the three beds
- A bed likes to get out once in a while, plate of Little Nemo
- Bedroom
- Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795), novel by Marquis de Sade
- Presagio di rose (1967), Archizoom, part of a dream bed series
- My Bed (1999), Tracey Emin
- Un lit défait Eugene Delacroix
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