What's the difference between bedclothes and bedlinen?

Bedclothes


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
  • (2) The bedclothes and pillows of each subject were laundered and vacuum-cleaned and a plastic cover applied to the mattress for six weeks in an attempt to reduce exposure to mites.
  • (3) These two infants' bedclothes were repeatedly wet with sweat.
  • (4) Younger mothers and mothers in the lower social groups put more bedclothes over their babies, and the latter also kept their rooms warmer.
  • (5) We have examined the relation of perineal colonization by coliforms to bacteriuria and to contamination of bedclothes and other environmental sites with these organisms in spinally injured patients.
  • (6) The couple had tried to protect themselves from the fire by covering themselves with synthetic bedclothes but they had stuck to their bodies.
  • (7) Questionnaires to 542 users of far-infrared radiator disks embedded in bedclothes revealed that the majority of the users subjectively evaluated an improvement of their health.
  • (8) "It can make us feel that the problem is too great and we may as well pull up the bedclothes and wait for disaster.
  • (9) Asthmatic attacks are usually nocturnal, especially in bedrooms with old bedclothes.
  • (10) Residents of the Morleigh Group homes lay in urine-soaked bedclothes, sat in chairs for hours with plates of unfinished food in front of them and waited weeks to receive medical attention, the Care Quality Commission said .
  • (11) Towels and sweat-ridden bedclothes remained for two days in the Dallas apartment where an undiagnosed Ebola sufferer – Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan – was staying because health officials in Texas struggled to find a waste management company willing to accept them.
  • (12) I is reduced if the cot is small, if occupation has been belief, and if the bedclothes are loosely draped over the baby.
  • (13) The neighbours showed the Guardian a pile of melted bedclothes and a woman’s bra lying on the ground surrounded by blood.
  • (14) Previously, there was a tendency to accept the possibility that sexually transmitted disease in children could be transmitted by other means than sexual contact, eg indirectly by infected bedclothes and toilet articles.
  • (15) Perineal colonization was significantly associated with bacteriuria and with contamination of bedclothes, but not with contamination of other sites.
  • (16) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
  • (17) Why should humanism have the privilege of looking like dangerous free-thinking, the sort of exciting thing one reads under the bedclothes at night with a torch?
  • (18) By candlelight, under the bedclothes, Littlewood read library books as soon as she was old enough.
  • (19) Picking at the bedclothes and at imaginary objects (carphology and floccillation) are characteristic, as is muscular twitching (subsultus tendinum).
  • (20) Secretions from the mouth and upper respiratory tract appear to be responsible for the early contamination of pillows and bedclothes.

Bedlinen


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The area is also frequented by the "bedlinen lady", a woman who takes bundles of cash folded into sheets to borrowers' homes.
  • (2) Flick through art and fashion magazines while luxuriating on Fendi cushions, Ralph Lauren bedlinen and cashmere wraps, then follow JJ's tips for places to eat.
  • (3) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
  • (4) This week, Ralph Lauren – who spent 48 years building his tie business into a global fashion brand – has announced he is stepping down as chief executive of a company that brought the world the idea that a designer who dressed Oscar winners would also craft bedlinen and bath towels, and a style of American sportswear that continues to influence fashion.