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box-bed en · NOUN
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A bed that is completely enclosed to provide the occupant with privacy, resembling a freestanding box or built into a wall.
James locked up before going to bed in the kitchen but awoke early next morning to hear footsteps beyond the closed wooden shtters of his box-bed.
2013, Norman Adams, Hangman's Brae: True crime and punishment in Aberdeen and the North-East, →ISBN:She had turned when they reached the candle-lit attic with its high uncurtained windows and its red-covered box beds […].
1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 78:
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A bed that has the form of a large box for storage, with the lid of the box serving as the sleeping platform.
Perhaps the wood had warped too much during the monsoon, I thought, and the lid of the old box-bed did not fit properly.
2013, Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj, →ISBN:
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A bed that folds up to form a box.
After many unsuccessful attempts, a "box-bed" was developed which met all requirements for packing practicability and of eye appeal for the owners. The boxes are supplied with a folding panel at one end which, when tilted back, becomes the head-board of the "bed".
1947, Modern Packaging, page 99:
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