variants:
or less commonly bedsitting room
plural bedsitting rooms
Definition of bed-sitting room
British
: a one-room apartment serving as both bedroom and living room : bedsit
A fairly large bed-sitting room was vacant at No. 23. I took it, and settled down seriously to make my writing pay.— P. G. Wodehouse
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The first known use of bed-sitting room was in 1868
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