hospital corner
noun
plural hospital corners
: a neatly folded corner on a bed formed when the corner of a sheet or bedspread is tucked under the mattress
The boys wore knickers to school, and, starting at age five, made their own beds, with hospital corners.—Dale Russakoff
The couple were gone, but the bed was made with hospital corners and a thin brown blanket.—Sam Lipsyte
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