field bed

American  

noun

1. a small bed having an arched canopy on short posts.

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Etymology

Origin of field bed

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Example Sentences

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field bed

Lea woke up alone in her field bed the next morning.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2012

The first object which struck his eyes was a big white tent; before the tent stood a canvas field bed, and on it lay a man attired in a white European dress.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Dorothy Quincy's bedroom contains a fine old mahogany field bed, which is appropriately covered with the flowered chintz popular at the end of the Eighteenth Century.

From Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today by Throop, Lucy Abbot

Those plants simply marked double in the seed bed were planted in a regular field bed by themselves.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by Latham, A. W.

“I’d have kept them all here and made a big field bed on the floor if I had thought we were going to have such a storm as this,” Mrs. Royall said anxiously.

From The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story by Thurston, I. T. (Ida Treadwell)