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
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
The result is a fourposter that often creaks and sags.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coleman, they cried, had let John Kennedy sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957.
From Time Magazine Archive
Right then I heard Sally coming, so I grabbed Miss Amelia and dragged her under the fourposter, where I always hid when caught doing something I shouldn't.
From Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter
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