fourposter

[ fawr-poh-ster, fohr- ]

noun

1. a bed with four corner posts, post, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
2. a four-masted sailing vessel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fourposter¹

First recorded in 1815–25; four + post ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

There is much to be said for a fourposter, but this is not the place in which to say it.

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Cleansed and filled, I was given no peace until she had me safe between clean, dry sheets in their canopied fourposter.

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Bill and Gus spent the night in the best spare room, under the heavy covers of an immense fourposter.

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The spare bedroom was a huge, rather cold chamber, furnished with a giant fourposter bed and a chest of drawers.

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In the candlestick were little runnings of grease, and in the big fourposter bed, along with Granny, was a son.

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