BED CLOTHING • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Bed clothing

... bed covering in such a way as to remove its weight from the body, thus providing what we might call a chamber of air in which to sleep. With the aid of a large safety-pin or a horse-blanket safety-pin, the bed clothing may be kept thus suspended. The safety-pin is pinned through all the coverings in the centre of the bed and then by means of a string passing through the safety-pin and running from the top of the head of the bed to the top of the foot of the bed the bed covering can ...

— Vitality Supreme • Bernarr Macfadden

... The snake!" called out the other boys in the room, and some were so scared that they dove under the bed clothing. ...

— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)