A light or lamp positioned for use near a bed.
From bed + light. This compound emerged alongside bedlamp as interior lighting became commonplace, though bedlight is slightly less common than bedlamp in modern English.
The subtle difference between 'bedlamp' and 'bedlight' shows how English speaker could describe the same thing multiple ways—bedlamp emphasizes the object, bedlight emphasizes the illumination.
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