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A vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead
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headboard
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A commemorative headboard will be carried featuring the Taunton 150 logo and the train leaves Bishops Lydeard at 19.15. ▪ Even the headboard , there in the middle. ▪ I slid down in my bed, my hair fanning out over the headboard ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The headboard is a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed . Historically, they served to isolate sleepers from drafts and cold in less insulated buildings, and thus were made of wood, which is less thermally conductive than stone or brick. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headboard \Head"board`\ (h[e^]d"b[=o]rd`), n. A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
Usage examples of headboard.
Viv punched the fiberfill pillow against the headboard and came to an unpleasant conclusion.
The Negress turned at the top of the stairs and led the way to the master bedroom, a large room occupied by a huge four-poster canopied bed, with the family crest carved into the headboard and yards of mosquito netting tied to the posters.
Teddy Tumtum leaned over the top of the headboard, a mischievous glint in his eyes.
A small bed with a quilted cover sat along the righthand wall with its headboard in the far corner.
She scooted up to the headboard and rolled into a ball with her knees tucked under her chin.
The Slugabeds, looking like unrolled sleeping bags, were arrayed on a carpeted platform, without frames or headboards or box springs.
As the magic brightened around her father, constraining and then quieting him, she sat back against the headboard with a sigh.
Once the bed-shelf was removed (and it would be easy to knock it off its support brackets, unanchored as it was), she would do a backover roll and plant her bare feet against the wall above the top of the headboard.
Worse still, in his opinion, was the bedroom furniture: chests and tables with cold marble tops, a platform rocker too dainty in scale, and an enormous headboard of dark wood, intricately designed and reaching almost to the ceiling.
Sharpe looked about the big cabin that was furnished with two sofas, a sideboard, a low table, a harp and an enormous teak bed with ivory inlays on the headboard.
She had twin beds with blond-wood headboards, a blond bed table, an old forty-five record player with a fat black spindle, and a black canvas-and-wrought-iron butterfly chair covered with discarded clothing.
Cruncher by the ears, and knocking the back of her head against the headboard of the bed.
I've put a CD of the Traveling Wilburys into a portable CD player that sits on the headboard above the bed, to mute any screams.
The fire made her chamber toasty, and there was a flask of cider wine in a cubbyhole in the headboard.
There was a large bed with a carved wooden headboard, a tall window obscured by long velvet curtains and a chandelier thickly coated in dust with candle scrubs still resting in its sockets, solid wax banging in frostlike drips.