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

If Sancho blessed the man who invented sleep after a nap on Spanish earth, what would he have thought of it after one enjoyed on a French bed!

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

In a recess was a French bed of simple furniture.

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"Lit ... sommier ... traversin ..." all the names of the complicated parts of a bed, a sacred French bed.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy

A cheap carpet—but high-priced in those times—of bright colors covered the floor; a very low French bed occupied one corner, and from a sort of dais escaped the folds of an embroidered bobbinet mosquito-bar.

From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington