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fourposter

[ fawr-poh-ster, fohr- ]

noun

  1. a bed with four corner posts, post, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
  2. a four-masted sailing vessel.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fourposter1

First recorded in 1815–25; four + post 1 + -er 1
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Example Sentences

There is much to be said for a fourposter, but this is not the place in which to say it.

Cleansed and filled, I was given no peace until she had me safe between clean, dry sheets in their canopied fourposter.

Bill and Gus spent the night in the best spare room, under the heavy covers of an immense fourposter.

The spare bedroom was a huge, rather cold chamber, furnished with a giant fourposter bed and a chest of drawers.

In the candlestick were little runnings of grease, and in the big fourposter bed, along with Granny, was a son.

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