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bedstead
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Definition:a bed frame
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There are bedsteads screwed to the floor. Men in blue hospital dressing-gowns, and wearing nightcaps in the old style, are sitting and lying on them. These are the lunatics.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
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the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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on a bedstead moved away from the wall, there lay covered with a quilt, a body.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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there was a smell of tobacco and whitewash, and a bright fire, and a lamp, and a stand of muskets, and a drum, and a low wooden bedstead, like an overgrown mangle without the machinery, capable of holding about a dozen soldiers all at once.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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