spool bed †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a design of bed having spool-like turnings as part of the design of the headboard and footboard, popular in the nineteenth century.

Quotations

1947

There was . . . the old spool bed that we had found in a junk shop in a neighbouring town.

1956

The white spool bed, the hooked rug in two colors on the floor [were familiar].

1958

Above it is a storeroom cluttered with fishing tackle, skates, dismantled spool beds . . . a broken parlor organ.