four-poster

Definitions

1. 1

   Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains…

   Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper.

   • 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, [...]
2. 2

   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.

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