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

Eating was nearly out of the question; and yet I had faith to the last, in a French bed.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

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

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

The crash was utter, universal, overwhelming; and under ordinary circumstances a French bed and a brasier of charcoal alone remained for Villebecque, who was equal to the occasion.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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