Etymology
Origin of fourposter
Example Sentences
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The camera takes in an acoustic-tile ceiling, wall-to-wall carpeting, bare drywall, and a fourposter bed.
From The New Yorker • May 14, 2018
Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Coleman, they cried, had let John Kennedy sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His great good friend, burly Queen Nzele of the Samue group, owned the most famed bed of Central Africa, a native-made fourposter, 7 x 8 ft.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Two large chests of drawers, with rounded bellies, and a very beautiful washing-stand also occupied places round the room, and against the inner wall rose a single, fourposter bed of Spanish chestnut, also carved.
From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden
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