bedstead

[ UK /bˈɛdstɛd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the framework of a bed
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How To Use bedstead In A Sentence

  • Cream voile has been lavishly draped around the metal four- poster bedstead to make an attractive centrepiece.
  • My bedstead was tall, with four posters, and had long gold curtains, with a sun pattern on them, tied back with a blue ribbon.
  • The four of clubs is described by some as the Devil's bedstead and is loathed by many players, who claim that no good hand can include this card.
  • The tenacious Hyde constitution, that was a proverb in Greenfield, conquered at last, and Hitty became conscious, to find herself in a chamber whose plastered walls were crumbling away with dampness and festooned with cobwebs, while the uncarpeted floor was checkered with green stains of mildew, and the very old four-post bedstead on which she lay was fringed around the rickety tester with rags of green moreen, mould-rotted. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
  • Huge arched fire-places; chimney-pieces carved with armorial bearings; oak tables absolutely joisted to sustain their vast bulk; bedsteads that would not have groaned with the weight of a Titan; -- the whole intended to oppose a ponderous resistance to the ravages of time and fashion. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • Maria and Mamma's room had a large brass bedstead and a small cot for Ettore. THE GOLDEN LION
  • You glance over the thick tubes that make up the emperor-size brass bedstead, and smile.
  • She told me to make my bed and gave me what she called a duster for the purpose of cleaning the iron bedstead. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
  • I got loose, tied a blanket and a counterpane together, fastened it to the bedstead, and let myself out of the window, and did not go home that night, but met my two pals and dossed in a haystack.
  • An armoire stood between the door and the bedstead, an old four-poster crouching against the left wall, with no mattress and the canopy in tatters.
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