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

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

From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield

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

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

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

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 George Washington Cable