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box_bed

box bed

See also: boxbed and box-bed

English

Noun

box bed (plural box beds)

  1. Alternative form of box-bed
    • 2006, James Douglas, Building Adaptation, ISBN 1136425098, page 325:
      However, during the 1950s through to the 1970s the removal of the partition forming part of the enclosure to the box bed recesses to increase the size of rooms was common.
    • 2008, Lodewijk Brunt & ‎Brigitte Steger, Worlds of Sleep, ISBN 3865961738, page 78:
      In the Netherlands, the box bed was widely used well into the twentieth century, especially in rural areas, but also in working-class housing.
    • 2015, Sanjeev Srivastava, Dream Girl: Set Free, ISBN 1482843692:
      Anyways now that you haven't had your almonds and don't remember the reason why we couldn't turn the bed upside down I will tell you just one more time that our bed, our big double bed, is a box bed!
  2. The floor of a boxcar.
  3. A garden with a box-like frame around it; a raised bed.