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box bed en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of box-bed.
   alt of box-bed
   • 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! 2015, Sanjeev Srivastava, Dream Girl: Set Free, →ISBN:
   • In the Netherlands, the box bed was widely used well into the twentieth century, especially in rural areas, but also in working-class housing. 2008, Lodewijk Brunt, Brigitte Steger, Worlds of Sleep, →ISBN, page 78:
   • 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. 2006, James Douglas, Building Adaptation, →ISBN, page 325:
2. The floor of a boxcar.
3. A garden with a box-like frame around it; a raised bed.

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