box bed meaning: definition, quotations

box bed

nounalso spelled box-bed

Alternative Alternative form of box-bed.

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:
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:

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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:

The floor of a boxcar.

A garden with a box-like frame around it; a raised bed.

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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:

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:

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: