BED-AND-BREAKFAST Definition & Meaning

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bed-and-breakfast

Or bed and break·fast

[bed-n-brek-fuhst]

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noun

an accommodation offered by an inn, hotel, or especially a private home, consisting of a room for the night and breakfast the next morning for one inclusive price.
an inn, hotel, or private home offering such an accommodation. B&B

bed and breakfast

noun

(in a hotel, boarding house, etc) overnight accommodation and breakfast

adjective

(of a stock-exchange transaction) establishing a loss for tax purposes, shares being sold after hours one evening and bought back the next morning when the market opens

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of bed-and-breakfast¹

First recorded in 1905–10

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, B and B. A hotel or other hostelry that offers a room for the night and a morning meal at an inclusive price. For example, Staying at a bed and breakfast meant never having to plan morning meals. This term and the practice originated in Britain and have become widespread. [Early 1900s]

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Last month, a few dozen Democrats were gathered there at a local bed-and-breakfast to eat pulled pork and talk party strategy.

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For three seasons, McIver and Ambudkar have played a married couple who uprooted their lives to turn the quaint country house they inherited into a bed-and-breakfast.

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This bed-and-breakfast opened last summer and is the perfect setting for quality time with loved ones.

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Then they launched a campaign to restore the compound and run the keepers’ residence as a bed-and-breakfast.

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Mara hopes that a superfan will buy the whole lot to create anything from a Streisand museum to a bed-and-breakfast with movie-themed rooms.

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