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Definition of Four-poster
1. Noun. A bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains.
Definition of Four-poster
1. Adjective. (context: 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. ¹
2. Noun. A four-poster bed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Four-poster
1. A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-poster
Literary usage of Four-poster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lure of the Antique by Walter Alden Dyer (1910)
"CHAPTER V four-poster BEDSTEADS AND OTHERS I HAVE in my library several good
books on old furniture, and when I look them over I am discouraged by the ..."
2. Wilson's Quarter Century in Photography: A Collection of Hints on Practical by Edward Livingston Wilson (1887)
"I find the four poster a very useful piece of apparatus for drying plates.
I will give the size of mine; but, of course, other sizes may be more convenient. ..."
3. Glencreggan by Cuthbert Bede (1861)
"A four-poster. — Pound-cake and Sherry. — Can- tire Hospitality. — No Canny.
— Extremes. — Oatmeal Bannocks. — What are they like ? ..."
4. The Boy Travellers in Northern Europe: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey by Thomas Wallace Knox (1892)
"The church has a large organ with no fewer than 4762 pipes and 72 stops.
The largest of the pipes is 32 feet A four-poster BED. ^ ^ tf i^l^ ^ diameter. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"But in the Sixteenth Century columns came into use to support them, and the
four-poster was created. Heavier stuffs became the rage for covers and hangings, ..."
6. The English Hotel Nuisance by Albert Smith (1855)
"Why it so always happens that the smaller the room, the larger is the hotel
four-poster, I cannot explain. I only know that it is so—that the ordinary ..."
7. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary Harrod Northend (1912)
"The last great change in the old four-poster was made, curiously enough, ...
In the revival of colonial fittings, the four-poster has again been restored to ..."
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