bed and board
nounEtymology From Middle English bed and bord.
1
A place to sleep and eat; bed and breakfast; the services provided by an inn or similar establishment.
- 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 only1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 4, Abbot Hugo”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
2
Full connubial relations.
- Derived terms
- divorce from bed and board, separation from bed and board
- Related terms
- food and board