French bed

American  

noun

1. a bed without posts, terminating in identical outward-curving rolls at the head and the foot.

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Etymology

Origin of French bed

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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French bed

The set was furnished with objects from Hogg’s youth, including an ornate antique French bed that she and her lover had bought, for a hundred pounds, at auction in 1982.

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019

A French bed, a piece of carpet about three yards square, a small table, two chairs, a toilet table—no wardrobe—no chest of drawers.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

For the gray parlor contained now, for Mrs. Argenter's use, a pretty, low, curtained French bed, and the other appliances of a sleeping-room.

From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

I say whiteness—for the dimity curtains, dropped before a French bed, bounded my view.

From Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Once or twice in the evening he had taken his car and started out, and lying awake in her French bed she would hear him coming hours later.

From The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart