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Four-poster

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper. attributive, not-comparable

    "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, [...]"

Noun
  1. 1
    A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.

    "... 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."

  2. 2
    a bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains wordnet

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