field bed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of field bed
An Americanism dating back to 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Lea woke up alone in her field bed the next morning.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2012
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 Lucy Abbot Throop
“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 I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston
Our babies were on a field bed on the floor.
From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
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 Henryk Sienkiewicz
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