four-poster

See also: fourposter

English

A four-poster with the curtains tied to the bed's columns.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

four-poster (not comparable)

1. (attributive, of a bed) Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     The furnishing of this Blue Room was solid and Victorian, it having been the GHQ of my Uncle Tom's late father, who liked things substantial. There was a four-poster bed, [...]

Noun

four-poster (plural four-posters)

1. A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 214:

     Wooden beds were made as replicas of large ones, some carved in walnut, others in mahogany and with elaborate head-pieces. There were four-posters draped with curtains to pull and bedspreads to match, much beautiful hand-sewing and embroidery going to their manufacture.

   Synonym: four-poster bed

Translations

four-poster bed

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: легло с балдахин n (leglo s baldahin)
• Catalan: llit de columnes, llit de dosser
• Danish: himmelseng c
• Dutch: hemelbed (nl)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pylvässänky
• French: lit à baldaquin (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Himmelbett (de) n
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: himmelseng m or f

  Nynorsk: himmelseng f

• Polish: łóżko z baldachimem n
• Portuguese: cama de dossel f
• Russian: четырёхно́гий (ru) m (četyrjoxnógij), четырёхно́гая f (četyrjoxnógaja), четырёхно́гое n (četyrjoxnógoje)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• canopy bed