French bed

noun

1. a bed without posts, terminating in identical outward-curving rolls at the head and the foot.

Word History and Origins

Origin of French bed¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

The set was furnished with objects from Hogg’s youth, including an ornate antique French bed that she and her lover had bought, for a hundred pounds, at auction in 1982.

From The New Yorker

I told her I liked a gallery with an ornate 18th century French bed that had been reupholstered by the same shop that made the linen over 200 years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times

I gave our guide a doubloon, with which he was well pleased, and I enjoyed once more a peaceful night in a French bed, for nowhere will you find such soft beds or such delicious wines as in the good land of France.

From Project Gutenberg

We had a beautiful French bed in which to spend the night, and in the morning we were awakened by the noise of the stage coach.

From Project Gutenberg

"Lit ... sommier ... traversin ..." all the names of the complicated parts of a bed, a sacred French bed.

From Project Gutenberg