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sleigh-bed
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
(a modern term) for a style of bed current in the first half of the 19th century, characterized by an outward curl at the top of the headboard and footboard.
Quotations
1950
She is immensely proud of his [Thos. C. Haliburton's] place in Nova Scotia history, and enjoys showing visitors around, upstairs to the old fourposters and "sleigh beds" or down to the basement and its great fireplace.