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Definition of Bedsteads
1. bedstead [n] - See also: bedstead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedsteads
Literary usage of Bedsteads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"X bedsteads THERE is, perhaps, no branch of the subject of furniture more difficult
to approach than that of bedsteads, and this not because they were by ..."
2. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1864)
"bedsteads. The bedsteads, or rather, to speak more accurately, ... Iron bedsteads
are now used in most first class institutions of this kind, ..."
3. Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, in the State by Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts (1819)
"[REMARKS On Beds and bedsteads. By SIMEON DE WITT, Esq. (With an Engraving. ...
The frames of bedsteads are commonly made of pieces of timber joined ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"Previously their bedsteads were of plank, covered with straw, moss, or dried leaves.
They borrowed from Asia those large carved bedsteads, gilt and plated ..."
5. Indo-Aryans: Contributions Towards the Elucidation of Their Ancient and by Raja Rājendralāla Mitra (1881)
"bedsteads, treme simplicity. It is not remarkable, therefore, that there should
be wanting traces of any great variety of furniture and domestic utensils ..."
6. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"Ancient bier on which the bodies were placed after death. perhaps, also bronze
bedsteads *, may have been used by the wealthier classes of the ancient ..."
7. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... I don't wish to even hint that any of the bedsteads in your house are inhabited
by bedbugs, but—" "I said that I hadn't the remotest idea that any of ..."
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