"bed-clothes" meaning in English

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          "text": "Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.",
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          "text": "This fidgettineſs, to uſe a vulgar expreſſion for want of a better, is occaſioned wholly by an uneaſineſs in the ſkin, owing to the retenſion of the perſpirable matter—the bed-clothes having received their quantity, and, being ſaturated, refuſing to take any more.",
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          "text": "Most fortunately the exigence of despair prompted Georgiana to instant action—she seized the letter and thrust it under the bed-clothes, […]",
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          "text": "[…] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proportion of it, […]",
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          "ref": "1897, W[illiam] Carter Platts, Angling Done Here!, London: Jarrold & Sons, […], pages 24–25:",
          "text": "A few days afterwards the coroner’s jury sat on a coffinful of old brickbats and fragments of bed-clothes and boots and brace buttons and bits of Eli, and after a long discussion, came to the only conclusion possible, viz., that the deceased’s death was attributable to a general breaking up of the system.",
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          "ref": "[1912], J[ohn] A[lexander] Hammerton, editor, Wonders of Animal Life, volume I, London: The Waverley Book Company Ltd. […], page 126, column 1:",
          "text": "His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage.",
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