bed-sitting room

noun

bed-sit·​ting room ˈbed-ˌsi-tiŋ- 

variants or less commonly bedsitting room

plural bedsitting rooms

British

: a one-room apartment serving as both bedroom and living room : bedsit

A fairly large bed-sitting room was vacant at No. 23. I took it, and settled down seriously to make my writing pay.

—P. G. Wodehouse

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined above