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fourposter

American  
[fawr-poh-ster, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˈpoʊ stər, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

  1. a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.

  2. a four-masted sailing vessel.


Etymology

Origin of fourposter

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

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

Coleman, they cried, had let John Kennedy sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957.

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

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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