footboard
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈfutˌbɔrd/
:
pie de cama
- It was bare except for the single bed with a brass headboard and footboard, a bureau, and a straight-backed chair.
- footboard of the bed
- headboard and footboard
- brass footboard
Examples
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The beautiful footboard of the antique bed added elegance to the bedroom decor.
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She decorated the footboard with a lovely quilt that matched the bedding.
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An immense bed with a carved headboard and footboard dominated one corner of the room.
Fiction book (1991) -
Charlie grabs two bars of the footboard frame, still staring at Barton.
Fiction book (1991) -
She sees the stiff billows where the comforter is bunched against the footboard.
Fiction book (1998) -
The bed was a rumple of linens—the top sheet gone, the blanket thrown against the footboard, the two pillows pushed against the head.
Fiction book (1990) -
His pants had been thrown carelessly across the footboard, and the belt buckle clanged against the cold metal of the bedpost as the mattress convulsively heaved.
Fiction book (1993) -
He painted the footboard white to brighten up the dark room.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Footboard comes from the simple parts foot 'foot' and board 'flat piece of wood', and it names the board at the foot of a bed. Like headboard, it is the upright panel at the bed's foot, so the word means the vertical board you find at the end of the bed.