单词 | footpost |
释义 | footpostn.2 Either of the bedposts at the foot of a bed. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > post bed-post1598 headpost1730 footpost1731 1731 W. Halfpenny Perspective made Easy 32 From B and E, raise the Head-posts to the Frame L and M, also draw the Foot-posts and Rails. 1788 W. Rowley Treat. Female Dis. 399 A third [napkin]..was firmly attached to the foot post of the bedstead. 1859 J. W. Palmer New & Old iv. 116 Protruding beyond the edge of this extemporaneous screen, I could see the footposts of an iron bedstead. 1885 R. Jefferies After London ii. i. 91 Round one footpost of the bed was a long coil of thin hide. 1946 New Yorker 11 May 25/3 ‘You came with Phil, didn't you?’ she asked. ‘Yes,’ Joanna said, moving hesitantly up to the bed and leaning against one of the footposts. 1973 Boston Museum Bull. 71 104 Four curtains hung from behind the valances, two narrow ones next to the headposts..and two wide ones around the footposts. 2002 G. Frost Fitcher's Brides (2003) xiii. 175 The fluted footposts were extravagantly carved. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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