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Definition of Bedposts
1. bedpost [n] - See also: bedpost
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedposts
Literary usage of Bedposts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1903)
"NAMING bedposts. Before your first nap on last day of October name four bedposts,
first being "Art;" second, "Science;" third, "Literature;" fourth, ..."
2. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"Empire bedposts, 1800-20. and the traditions have ... Occasionally a large eagle
with outspreading wings is carved at the centre of the bedposts of this ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1848)
"bedposts (2) in great chamber new. — July 19. Sunday. ... Bedsteads and bedposts
of the reign of James I. are of good old English oak, quaintly constructed, ..."
4. A system of phrenology by George Combe (1830)
"... and also by presenting her with a number of bedposts instead of one. ...
the multiplication of the bedposts, and subsequently of any inanimate object ..."
5. The Journal of Nicholas Assheton, of Downham, in the County of Lancaster by Nicholas Assheton, Francis Robert Raines (1848)
"bedposts (2) in great chamber new. — July 19. Sunday. ... Bedsteads and bedposts
of the reign of James I. are of good old English oak, quaintly constructed, ..."
6. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"They came to the bedposts, and, being awkward creatures to deal with in the dark,
I was satisfied with watching that they did not climb up the bedposts, ..."
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