Crossword clues for four-poster
four-poster
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Four-poster \Four"-post`er\, n. A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support a canopy or curtains. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context of a bed English) Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper. n. A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.
WordNet
n. a bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains
Usage examples of "four-poster".
Functional, clean and even well-decorated with a Battenberg lace comforter on the four-poster and matching curtains on the window.
A great fat opulent Victorian fusspot of a tomb, wrought into the semblance of a gigantic four-poster bed, mounted upon a complicated network of remarkable cogs.
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.
When he came to his senses again, he was lying between sheets of the whitest, most delicate linen in a great four-poster bed, in a room in the royal palace.
The bedroom had an old wooden four-poster piled high with duvets and down pillows, and French doors that also opened onto the terrace.
This one was done in lilacs and blues, with large wicker chairs whose cushions matched the draperies and quilt, a king-size four-poster with the trademark stuffed frogs squatting near the pillow, and an oversized, glassed-in Jacuzzi standing in clear sight.
At first Celia had difficulty in recognizing the gaunt figure propped up by pillows in the large four-poster bed.
It was exquisitely furnished in Chippendale, with a huge four-poster bed that was swathed in graceful swags of netting, and with huge, lush potted plants artistically arranged around the room.
Everything the girls could possibly want was provided, a beautiful suite on the third floor schoolroom, playroom, bedroom with four-poster beds under flowered canopies, paired cocker spaniel puppies, Chestnut and Cinnamon, matched ponies to ride on the grounds and in the hilly woods just beyond the stone walls, a perennially changing cast of servants, hastily paid off to avoid recriminations.
A four-poster stood over ashtrays, open books, loose butts, water glasses.
She used the sashes from two towelling bathrobes to tie his hands to the opposite corners of the bedhead and then she used her stockings to bind his ankles to the bottom corners of the four-poster.
He’d tossed her into a room filled with dark, opulent furnishings—a four-poster bed draped with a black velvet spread, satin-covered chaises and chairs, an onyx wardrobe, a rug woven from gray, filmy stuff that resembled cobwebs, and a full-length wall mirror framed by gargoyles.
Grigori approved of everything she picked out for the house: a beautiful antique oak bedroom set with a four-poster bed, a large round oak table and four chairs for the kitchen, another more formal table and chairs for the dining room, an intricately carved oak sideboard.
Miraculously, his plunge had been intercepted by an old-fashioned four-poster bed, so piled with eiderdowns and quilts that it had absorbed the impetus of the fall.
The waking up in the middle of the night because the four-poster is changing into a Hollywood bed!