Without a bed; homeless or having no place to sleep.
From bed + the suffix -less, meaning 'without.' This compound emerged to describe someone or something lacking a bed, particularly used for the homeless or destitute.
The word 'bedless' is poignantly simple—it reduces homelessness to the absence of one essential item, which is why it appears frequently in Victorian social reform writing.
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