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
Coleman, they cried, had let John Kennedy sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
We all sat on the bed—it is a mahogany fourposter with green curtains very good for tents, only the housekeeper doesn't allow it, and Oswald said— 'This is jolly nice, isn't it?'
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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