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Definition of Day bed
1. Noun. Convertible consisting of an upholstered couch that can be converted into a double bed.
Definition of Day bed
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of daybed) A bed or sofa used specially for daytime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Bed
Literary usage of Day bed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe (1914)
"Nothing is more comfortable in a boudoir than a day bed. It serves so many purposes.
In my own house my boudoir is also my sitting-room, and I have a large ..."
2. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"Attention is here called to the marked similarity between the Pennsylvania day-bed
and the earliest type of Windsor chairs, which were made in Philadelphia. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"(3) The surface of ore. (4) A league of amity (5) To procrastinate. DAY-BED.
A couch or sofa. A late riser is still called a day-bed fellow in I. Wight. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"(3) The surface of ore. (4) A league of amity (5) To procrastinate. DAY-BED.
A couch or sofa. A late riser is still called a day-bed fellow in I. Wight. ..."
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