Meaning of bed and board | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place to sleep and eat; bed and breakfast; the services provided by an inn or similar establishment.
   uncountable
2. Full connubial relations.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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