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childbed|ˈtʃaɪldbɛd|
[f. child n. + bed n. Although instances are wanting, the literal sense 1 c is presumably the original.]
1. The state of a woman in labour; ‘confinement’.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 On þre þinges. Þat on is child⁓bed, and þat oðer chirchgang, and þe þridde þe offring. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 379 ‘Þe kyng’, he seyde, ‘of Engelond..lyþ myd hys gret wombe at Reyns a chyld bedde.’ c1440Gesta Rom. 237 She browte forthe a faire sone; but she dide in hir childebed. 1483Cath. Angl. 63 To ly in chilbed, decubere. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 45 That Fenyce, hys quene, should lye a chyld⁓bedde at the Port Noyre. 1654Trapp Comm. Job xli. 30 As for pillows, they said they were fit only for women in child⁓bed. 1834Macaulay Pitt, Ess. (1854) I. 304/1 Queens run far greater risk in childbed than private women.
†b. with pl. Obs.
1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 165 All her child-beddes are false conceptions, and her productions, abortions.
c. The bed in which a child is born. Also fig.
1594Southwell M. Magd. Fun. Teares 115 The nest where sinne was first hatched, may bee now the child-bed of grace and mercie. 1616Chapman Homer's Hymns 38 Her childbed made the mountain Cynthian.
†2. The womb. (Also child's-bed.) Obs. exc. dial. Cf. bairn's-bed s.v. bairn.
1535Coverdale 2 Esdr. iv. 40 Yf hir childeszbed maye kepe y⊇ byrth eny longer within her. 1863Atkinson Provinc. Danby, Childbed, the matrix or womb.
3. attrib. (in sense 1.)
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vne Accouchée & gisante, a childebed wife. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. ii. 104 The Child-bed priuiledge deny'd, which longs To Women of all fashion. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 130 An wholesome Medicine for Child-bed Women. 1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5425/10 A Large Trunk containing Child-bed Linnen. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz vi, The great points about the Childbed-linen Monthly Loan Society. |
