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Recent Examples of bedstead
Calling it the Fair View, Mulrooney was meticulous in choosing the lace curtains, plush carpets, brass bedsteads and other finery that would make her new hotel the envy of the region’s other hoteliers, who housed most guests in rough dormitories.
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Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The Emerald Ridge room, for example, has original redwood-slat walls, an antique bedstead and river views, while the sunny Rhododendron boasts period wallpaper and a claw-foot tub.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
The only possible exit is a skylight, and the only means of reaching it is to build a tower from a bedstead and other bits of furniture.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
My dad had rigged a ramp up to a derelict bedstead and boarded over the springs.
—Jeanette Winterson, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
In guest rooms, fires and lamplight illuminate upholstered sleigh beds or traditional turned-wood New England bedsteads.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
Our room’s vintage iron bedstead was set against walls painted a soft, saturated green.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
One room boasts crimson walls and a large white wooden bedstead, with pretty floral bedding.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The Emerald Ridge room, for example, has original redwood-slat walls, an antique bedstead and river views, while the sunny Rhododendron boasts period wallpaper and a claw-foot tub.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
The only possible exit is a skylight, and the only means of reaching it is to build a tower from a bedstead and other bits of furniture.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
My dad had rigged a ramp up to a derelict bedstead and boarded over the springs.
—Jeanette Winterson, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
In guest rooms, fires and lamplight illuminate upholstered sleigh beds or traditional turned-wood New England bedsteads.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
Our room’s vintage iron bedstead was set against walls painted a soft, saturated green.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
One room boasts crimson walls and a large white wooden bedstead, with pretty floral bedding.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedstead
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That’s when Grateful Gatherings stepped in and provided Coleman with a couch, bed frame and brand new mattress and bedding, a far cry from the ironing board Coleman used to lay his head on while living in a U-Haul shed.Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
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The electronic hospital bed with the extra comfortable mattress and the trapeze bar needed a new home.Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Novogratz’s Brittany Vegan Leather Sofa converts into a futon for guests to sleep on and is easy to assemble.Ali Faccenda, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Pottery Barn Carmel Wide Arm Daybed Sleeper $1,899 $1,519 Pottery Barn Meet your new guest bed, courtesy of Carmel's pullout-style sleeper sofa that folds down into a futon of sorts.Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
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For example, Smith says the company is currently shipping Nvidia chips from Guadalajara up the west coast of the United States and pallets from John Deere to Europe.Michael del Castillo, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
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Now that word is out, people have donated pallets of water to his door.Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
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Jordan and her siblings were routinely physically, verbally and mentally abused by their parents, who reportedly chained their children to their beds and deprived them of food and the ability to exercise.Nicholas Rice, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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The City of Detroit opened warming centers last month with 100 extra emergency shelter beds, providing sleeping accommodations, two meals and showers.Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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In addition to the full-beam primary, belowdecks are two spacious ensuite cabins in each hull, with a bonus room for twin bunks or storage.Howard Walker, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024
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Sandy wisely asks Aesha to change the bunk assignments so Bri and Ellie don’t share a cabin.Emma Soren, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Bedstead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedstead. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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