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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