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- noun A
bed with acanopy supported at the corners on four posts
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Examples
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The furniture was mahogany, big and solid, and the bed was a vast mahogany fourposter.
Twin Moons 2010
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Related to it is the St. Merry where you can have a fourposter or a former confessional – I think it was a monastery – but it is more expensive.
navigo 2006
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I introduced her (Frankfurters, numborines, why drive fear?) to our fourposter tunies chantreying under Castrucci Sinior and De
Finnegans Wake 2006
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After when from midnights unwards the fourposter harp quartetto.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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This dyed the dimity-hangings of the fourposter; made ruddy pools in the great mahogany wardrobe.
The Way Home 2003
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The old mahogany fourposter with the red rep hangings had been brought out from among the lumber, and set up afresh in
The Way Home 2003
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John, stalking solemnly and noiselessly in a long black coat, himself led the two women to the bedroom, where he left them; they sat down one on each side of the great fourposter.
Australia Felix 2003
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There was an old fourposter and a nightstand of oak.
A Man Of Honour Leonard, Tina 2001
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She immediately explained that her bed was a Georgian-style painted fourposter.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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She immediately explained that her bed was a Georgian-style painted fourposter.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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