bedchamber
Noun
Meaning
A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
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A nation needs clear rules on what happens in the case of a disputed succession. Surely there's a Queen's Bedchamber Mace or someone who knows.
Led into the royal bedchamber, they gazed upon Louis, who was feigning sleep, were appeased, and quietly departed.
Hamlet goes to confront his mother, in whose bedchamber Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry.
Guards watched throughout the night, except at Alexander's bedchamber, which was at the top of a ladder with a ferocious chained dog guarding the door.
In the queen's bedchamber, Hamlet and Gertrude fight bitterly.
Modern editors generally follow this traditional division, but consider it unsatisfactory; for example, after Hamlet drags Polonius's body out of Gertrude's bedchamber, there is an act-break Hamlet 3.4 and 4.1.