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shake-down
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tags: [garniture]
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Definition:A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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‘Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop the night.’
‘Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.’
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advised me to look out at once for a "fashionable crib" near Hyde Park, in which he could have "a shake-down."
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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a shakedown for the night plus the use of a rug or two and overcoat doubled into a pillow.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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