Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The frame of a bed; a bedstead.

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Examples

  • When it is time to upgrade from the Ikea couch and Target lamps, they head to stores like BoConcept for a modern bed-frame or GlobalTable for an unusual vase or throw pillow.

    10 Great Design Stores In NYC Huffington Post 2010

  • When it is time to upgrade from the Ikea couch and Target lamps, they head to stores like BoConcept for a modern bed-frame or GlobalTable for an unusual vase or throw pillow.

    10 Great Design Stores In NYC Huffington Post 2010

  • When it is time to upgrade from the Ikea couch and Target lamps, they head to stores like BoConcept for a modern bed-frame or GlobalTable for an unusual vase or throw pillow.

    10 Great Design Stores In NYC The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • At €7,450 this bed-frame made from recycled and cleverly fitted lumps of scrap lumber is more the kind of thing you admire than the kind of thing you run out and buy.

    Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005

  • It consisted of a rude wooden stool, and still ruder hutch or bed-frame, stuffed with clean straw, and accommodated with two or three sheepskins by way of bed-clothes.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • He stood on the bed-frame and slid the skylight open.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • They watched the ceiling till the bed-frame ceased complaining.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • He stood on the bed-frame and slid the skylight open.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • They watched the ceiling till the bed-frame ceased complaining.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Then, Yukl lifted Schlegel a few inches off the floor—feet-first—and placed the body inside the bed-frame on top of the table, still lying faceup.

    The Piano Teacher Robert K. Tanenbaum 1987

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