Bedtop

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The top section of a four-poster bed. rare

    "Down and down, without pausing and without sounding, came the bedtop, and still my panic terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress […]"

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"Down and down, without pausing and without sounding, came the bedtop, and still my panic terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress […]"

Etymology

From bed + top.

Related phrases

four poster

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