bedstead

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In Herman and Lizzie’s bedroom, on either side of the bedstead, there are two panelled doors, which lead to three tiny rooms.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

“I was not born in a hospital but on a creaking bedstead in my grandparents’ house,” he wrote in his 2004 autobiography, “Ojibwa Warrior.”

From Reuters • Oct. 30, 2017

Experts at Mount Vernon have added reproduction French wallpaper, cream-painted woodwork and a bedstead draped in blue printed cotton.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2017

“Basically everything’s for sale,” with a few exceptions, like a sharkskin bedstead, Dr. Kelly said during a recent tour.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2013

When she wasn’t feeding us, she sewed, if she had fabric, or polished the bedstead and Papi’s dresser, or mended whatever was worn, ripped, or needed patching.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago