Crossword clues for nightstand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context US English) A small table or cabinet, typically with drawers, placed at the head side of a bed.
Wikipedia
A nightstand, alternatively night table, bedside table or bedside cabinet, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom. Modern nightstands are usually small bedside tables, often with a drawer. They are often used to support items that might be useful during the night, such as a table lamp, alarm clock, reading matter, phone, desktop intercom, a drink, or medication.
As a result, early nightstands were often small cabinets, sometimes fitted with a drawer, and usually containing an enclosed storage space below covered by one or more doors. Another term sometimes given to such cabinets was commode.
French, Italian and Spanish antique nightstands usually have one drawer and an enclosed storage space with one door. They can be embellished with gold leaf finish, bronze or parquetry inlaid.
Usage examples of "nightstand".
The Riverwalk had begun life as a one-time WPA project, according to an old travel guide she had found in the nightstand at La Casita, then been pulled back from the edge of ruin in the early sixties.
She noticed, as Eve had, the little vase of flowers on the nightstand, the square catchall box on the dresser that said I LOVE GRANDMA in pink swirly letters on the top, and the framed photos and holos that stood on the dresser, the nightstand, the small desk by the window.
There was an unmade twin bed crammed against the wall and a single nightstand on which rested a phone, an alarm clock, and one framed picture -a Chasidic man standing next to, but not touching, a young girl of about fourteen.
The bed was covered with a quilted satin spread and the phone rested on a chinoiserie nightstand.
The only thing I found that rattled the mom was a Christer Bible tucked into the back of the bottom drawer of the nightstand.
He moved with soundless tread to the bed and placed the candle on the nightstand where it would spread its glow over the one he had come to see.
Westcliff busied himself at the nightstand, pouring steaming water from a small jug into a creamware bowl.
Passing over the nightstand, his fingers touch a box of aspirin, brush the preserved Epigaea repens, and curl around the neck of the half-full Arbutus bottle.
Beside it a pressboard nightstand painted brown in imitation of wood grain.
His quarters were at the northwest corner: a queen-size bed with a sagging mattress and worn blue-green spread, cigarette-scarred nightstands, a television bolted to a stand, table, two straight-back chairs, cigarette-scarred bureau, phone, bathroom, and one big window framing the night-blanketed sea.
She changed into a nightgown 210 T A M 0 A 0 and crawled into bed, took a drink from the glass on the nightstand, and washed down a sleeping pill.
Chapter Nine Neither Riley nor Caralie said a word as Riley took her by the hand and led her up the stairs and into his bedroom, where a lamp on the nightstand created a warm glow.
At first he thinks he is dreaming, but the distinctly nondreamlike detail of used dental floss on his nightstand assures him that he isnt.
Placing the radio on the nightstand, he clicked off the flashlight and got into bed with her, pulling her down to nestle in his arms.
The highly polished mahogany furniture gleamed where it was touched by the soft, shaded, amber glow that came from one of the two copperplated bedside lamps that stood on the nightstands.