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press bed
noun
- a bed enclosed within a closet, cupboard, etc.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of press bed1
First recorded in 1650–60
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Example Sentences
After that you ran the upper roller out over the two forms of type on the press bed.
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A spotted small boy sat across the press bed from him to ink the forms.
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Next door, in the dining-room, old Betty Harrison lay across the press-bed in which she usually slept.
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But Connie explained to Ronald that the huge wooden wardrobe was doubtless a press-bed which let down at night.
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He is lying ill with a fever in the press-bed in the kitchen, where not a breath of air reaches him.
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