bedstead
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6.0
- noun
- /ˈbɛdˌstɛd/
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- The room was dark, and Olivia was forced to go in and light the lamp on the table just to her left, revealing the plain iron bedstead and its coverlet, one of the many she had crocheted during Aunt Eloise's declining years.
- an iron bedstead
- a brass bedstead
- a steel bedstead
Examples
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" The room was dark, windowless, lit only by the wall lamp above the bedstead.
Fiction book (1999) -
Twin brass bedsteads, high off the ground, each wide as a small double bed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hey, you gotta come down to the store and see that victorian brass bedstead we got.
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There was an iron bedstead, a chest of drawers, and a bedside table.
Fiction book (1994) -
The clock, the wardrobe, the bedstead, the chest of drawers, the dresser with the oval mirror.
Fiction book (1990) -
The bedstead was iron, painted white, and the coverlet was cream-colored sateen, threadbare but still pretty.
Fiction book (2002) -
Bits of 19th-century glass and ceramics and part of an old iron bedstead littered the grass—promising signs of a house from the period.
Academic text (2010) -
But the opposite side of the room, which contains a narrow bed and the woman's outer garments, seems more feminine because of the bedstead's rather elegant shape and the oval picture that decorates the wall above.
Academic text (1993) -
At the opposite end of the room was a wooden bedstead, held high off the floor by oak stumps.
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There was an iron bedstead, a chest of drawers, and a bedside table.
Synonyms
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2.1
A frame of wood or metal that holds a mattress
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3.0
A bed frame with a raised flat surface that holds a mattress without box springs
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bedstead comes from two old English parts: bed and stead, where stead means 'place', like in homestead. So bedstead literally meant the 'place of the bed', which is why today it refers to the frame or structure that holds and supports a mattress.