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bedder (dict)
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BedderA "bedder" is short for a "bedmaker" and is a housekeeper in a college of the University of Cambridge. The equivalent, at the University of Oxford is known as a scout. Nowadays, they often change bed linen, vacuum the rooms, empty bins, etc, and their role varies from college to college, some do not make beds at all, but others go so far as to take care of their students washing up. Allegedly, there was once a "Bedder Test", which every applicant had to pass, in order to qualify for the post. Until the late Victorian age, women were not allowed to become undergraduates, and there were even regulations preventing Fellows from marrying, and so the "Bedder Test" was there to make sure that the prospective bedders were of "an appearance, bearing and position" as to leave them "beyond suspicion" in any "impropriety".
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