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Four-poster

noun

A bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains.

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"Four-poster" Quotes from Famous Books

... short turning staircase, and into a quaint old-fashioned bedroom, with four-poster bed, chintz hangings, ...

— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells

... Lloyd into a room, gay with big-flowered chintz curtains, and quaint with old-fashioned carved furniture. There was a high four-poster bed in one corner, with a chintz valance around it, and pink silk quilled into the tester. The only modern thing in the room was a tiled grate, piled full of blazing coals. It threw out such a summer-like heat that Lloyd almost gasped. She was glad to accept Mrs. Bisbee's ...

— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston

... fine four-poster beds with a frame built around the top of the bed, and over the frame hung pretty, ruffled white curtains and a similar ruffled curtain was around the bottom of the bed; the curtains made pretty ornaments. Slaves ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 4 • Works Projects Administration

... the room in which her grandfather and grandmother died—an immense apartment, wherein stood, grim and tall, a gigantic mahogany four-poster, draped with ...

— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon

... matter coolly, while I see what is the matter with the patient. That is what I say to myself, as I draw a chair to the bedside.—The bed is an old-fashioned, dark mahogany four-poster. It was never that which made the noise of something moving. It is too heavy to be pushed about the room.—The Little Gentleman was sitting, bolstered up by pillows, with his hands clasped and their united palms resting ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

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