Bridebed

Bride´bed`


n. 1. The marriage bed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Stephen's fear of drowning, his anxiety about creative production--as the word "unspeeched" indicates, and repressed guilt associated with his mother come together in this chapter, as he ponders the "tomb, allwombing tomb" (3.402), "bridebed, childbed, bed of death, ghostcandled.
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