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box bed
noun
- a bed completely enclosed so as to resemble a box.
- a bed that folds up in the form of a box.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of box bed1
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Example Sentences
Look at the stone floor in the kitchen, and the adorable stuffy box-bed in the wall!
As we were going into a box bed for the night, two young men came in, and said they were gaun to burn the water.
In the kitchen is the box bed in which the poet was born, and many of the articles of furniture belonged to his family.
In my box-bed at that flower-baptized inn, I certainly did not sleep so well as in my own nest at school.
A boy drove the night's fish to the station, and Big Harry slept heavily in the dark box bed.
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