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 bed was uncomfortable with that extraordinary discomfort of the old-fashioned French bed, that feels as though it were padded with cotton wool of indescribable heaviness.

From Max by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

It will be funny to sleep in a comfortable French bed in an ordinary bedroom again.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous

Every French bed is an idyll—a poem of repose.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

And there, too, was my elegant wardrobe and that heavenly French bed!'

From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by Thompson, George