French bed

American  

noun

1. a bed without posts, terminating in identical outward-curving rolls at the head and the foot.

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Etymology

Origin of French bed

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

The set was furnished with objects from Hogg’s youth, including an ornate antique French bed that she and her lover had bought, for a hundred pounds, at auction in 1982.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

I say whiteness—for the dimity curtains, dropped before a French bed, bounded my view.

From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte

In a recess was a French bed of simple furniture.

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Eating was nearly out of the question; and yet I had faith to the last, in a French bed.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

A cheap carpet—but high-priced in those times—of bright colors covered the floor; a very low French bed occupied one corner, and from a sort of dais escaped the folds of an embroidered bobbinet mosquito-bar.

From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington