French bed

noun

1. a bed without posts, terminating in identical outward-curving rolls at the head and the foot.

Word History and Origins

Origin of French bed¹

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

I told her I liked a gallery with an ornate 18th century French bed that had been reupholstered by the same shop that made the linen over 200 years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Then there are serious antiques, like an 18th-century French bed coverlet set on offer for $1,900.

From New York Times