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A table stood near the bed, and a lamp burning low stood on it; the bed was a great four-poster with white curtains, and the quilt was of rich crimson satin.

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  1. noun A piece of furniture for reclining and sleeping, typically consisting of a flat, rectangular frame and a mattress resting on springs.
  2. noun A bedstead.
  3. noun A mattress.

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  • Near the bed was a little table arranged as an altar, covered with a white cloth. —  Renée Mauperin
  • For the bed was a raised platform of something that looked like concrete and, except for an uncanny property of molding itself somewhat to the contours of their bodies, was almost as hard as rock. —  Masters of Space
  • I left him to sleep on some contrivance of sacking which he called a bed, and trudged homewards to the Boulevard Saint-Michel. —  The Belovéd Vagabond
  • The only thing that looked like a bed was a stiff rawhide thrown over a series of round poles running lengthwise. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • This bed was a rather simple affair, made up of some bed-clothing and pillows arranged on a thick layer of hay in the bottom of the wagon-box. —  The Voyage of the Rattletrap
 

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chair ·  room ·  floor ·  box ·  clothe ·  grind ·  wood ·  garden ·  side ·  fire ·  couch ·  car

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bed:   bedding ·  beds ·  bedded
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. Early modern English also bedd, bedde, from Middle English bed, bedde, from Anglo-Saxon bedd, bed = Old Saxon bed = OFries. bed = Dutch bed = Old High German beti, betti, Middle High German bette, bet, German bett, beet = Icelandic bedhr = Swedish bädd = Danish bed = Gothic (Moesogothic) badi, a bed (the special sense of a plat of ground in a garden occurs in Anglo-Saxon, Middle High German, etc., and is the only sense of Danish bed, and of the G. form beet); perhaps orig. a place dug out, a lair, and thus akin to L. fodi, dig: see foss, fossil, etc.
  2. from Middle English bedden, beddien, from Anglo-Saxon beddian (Old High German bettōn = Swedish bädda), prepare a bed, from bed, a bed.
 

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