headboard

[hed-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

1. a board forming the head heads of anything, especially of a bed.

headboard

/ ˈhɛdˌbɔːd /

noun

1. a vertical board or terminal at the head of a bed

Word History and Origins

Origin of headboard¹

First recorded in 1720–30; head + board

Example Sentences

That time spent getting the headboard, for example, was frankly spent in a sort of grim fugue state, wordlessly drifting from place to place in exhausted resignation.

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Basically, what that means is you lie on your bed and put your legs up against the headboard.

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That could mean sitting on the other side of the bed to read, or even just turning the other way around with your feet at the headboard.

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Gray recently renovated her son’s dorm room and stuck leather panels to the wall to create a headboard.

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One guest room ingeniously uses a section of wall upholstery as a generous headboard.

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