Four-poster
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Four-poster is an adjective meaning A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.
Meaning
A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.
More Meanings
- (attributive, of a bed) Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper.
Example Sentences
The furnishing of this Blue Room was solid and Victorian, it having been the GHQ of my Uncle Tom's late father, who liked things substantial. There was a four-poster bed, [...]
... the bed, an immense four-poster with different rosewood fruits carved crudely on its high headboard, was suffocatingly soft and his body had sunk deep in its feathery center.
Wooden beds were made as replicas of large ones, some carved in walnut, others in mahogany and with elaborate head-pieces. There were four-posters draped with curtains to pull and bedspreads to match, much beautiful hand-sewing and embroidery going to their manufacture.
Word Forms
- four-posters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quatrefoiled, four-door, tetrastylic, tetrapolar, columned, multibed.
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