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four-poster

noun

  1. a bed with posts at each corner supporting a canopy and curtains Also calledfour-poster bed


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Still asleep in the luxurious four-poster bed of the expensive $10 million house was beautiful wife Mrs Brown.

Sitting on the edge of the huge curtained four-poster bed, he ponders on the events of the evening.

In one corner was a four-poster bed with the faded peacock-blue dressing-gown pendent below a tousled nightcap of gray silk.

Mrs. Gano was sitting propped with huge feather pillows in an ancient four-poster.

Some are nearer the earth, like old-fashioned four-poster bed-steads; and there the dead sleep well.

There was a massive four-poster bed with faded blue satin curtains, and there was a fireplace with fire-dogs and an Adam screen.

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