day bed

noun

1. a narrow bed, with a head piece and sometimes a foot piece and back, on which to recline during the day

Example Sentences

Dropping the things in her lap on the floor, she got up and went over to the day-bed where Nan was reading a letter.

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Eleanor insisted upon her father taking her room while she went to Pollys chamber to sleep upon the day-bed there.

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My little maid was elder than she, and lay on a day-bed within a compassed window.

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Mr. Blood, at the head of the day-bed, looked over his shoulder to take stock of the invaders.

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The Captain stamped forward to the day-bed, and scowled down upon the grey-faced sufferer.

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