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 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

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

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 Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

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