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

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

The room was built around a wonderful old French bed which came from Brittany.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

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 Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

How white and still she lay on the pretty French bed, with its volumes of lace brooding over her like the clouds in which we imagine seraphs to be sleeping!

From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

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