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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1924
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†BED-DOOR, n. The door of a box-bed. [bɛd do:r]Bch. 1924 P. Giles Dial. in Lit. in The Scottish Tongue 120:
With the disappearance of the box-bed from country cottages has disappeared what seventy or eighty years ago was called a bed-door in Buchan.
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