water bed

British  

noun

1. a waterproof mattress filled with water

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Example Sentences

I told her I wanted a white, fake-leather water bed with a black fake-fur bedspread.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

My wife isn't into chocolate, so she booked a seaweed wrap, which was done on a water bed, and absolutely loved it.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2023

Young Goetzman once sold a water bed to famed hairdresser-turned-Hollywood producer Jon Peters, an anecdote Anderson spins into careening scenes of fiction featuring Bradley Cooper, who plays Peters as a libidinal, wild-eyed dervish.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2021

In the mid-’70s, David Rockwell, the designer of hotels, hospitals and playgrounds, Broadway shows and a couple of Oscar ceremonies, slept on a water bed in his attic dorm room.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2018

There was every kind of water bed you could imagine: different kinds of wood, different patterns of sheets; queen-size, king-size, emperor-of-the-universe-size.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan