"close friend, roommate," mid-15c., from bed (n.) + fellow (n.). Also (late 15c) "concubine." Earlier in the "close companion" sense was bed-fere (early 14c.). Bedsister "husband's concubine" is recorded in Middle English (c. 1300).
双语例句
1. Stupidity here makes an easy bedfellow , as always , with racialism ( Christopher Hitchens )
