What is "fourposter"

Usage examples of "fourposter".

It was a large room, dominated by a fourposter bed and a good deal of dark oak furniture.

It was a large apartment, with a wide, tall window draped with brocade curtains in pale pinks and blues and the same colours were repeated in the spread which covered the fourposter bed, a magnificent piece of furniture, its mahogany blending with the sofa table and the huge pillow cupboard along one wall.

His bed, from which she had hastily averted her eyes, was a huge fourposter, big enough for him to have entertained three Eva Chance-Smythes in it at once, being her naughtily irreverent thought at the sight of it.

The fourposter queen-sized bed was rich-looking with expensive pale pink French sheets.

An elegant fourposter bed with curtains drawn around it filled most of one wall.

Margaret lay on the enormous fourposter with a maid sponging her brow.

Celine led the way upstairs, past the family bedrooms and those with the fourposters and the lovely views, and showed him three rooms in the east wing, all charming, although she very much doubted if he would appreciate them.

Fourposters, and massive four-posters at that, with concealed and mechanically operated sideboards which could be quickly raised in bad weather.