English
Noun
bed and board (uncountable)
- A place to sleep and eat; bed and breakfast; the services provided by an inn or similar establishment.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo
- 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 Theatre only
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