Examples of bedstead in a Sentence
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Calling it the Fair View, Mulrooney was meticulous in choosing the lace curtains, plush carpets, brass bedsteads and other finery that would make her new hotel the envy of the region’s other hoteliers, who housed most guests in rough dormitories.
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Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The Emerald Ridge room, for example, has original redwood-slat walls, an antique bedstead and river views, while the sunny Rhododendron boasts period wallpaper and a claw-foot tub.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
The only possible exit is a skylight, and the only means of reaching it is to build a tower from a bedstead and other bits of furniture.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
My dad had rigged a ramp up to a derelict bedstead and boarded over the springs.
—Jeanette Winterson, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
In guest rooms, fires and lamplight illuminate upholstered sleigh beds or traditional turned-wood New England bedsteads.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
One room boasts crimson walls and a large white wooden bedstead, with pretty floral bedding.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
Guest bedrooms are furnished with mother-of-pearl wardrobes from Syria and gold bedsteads from Egypt.
—Lizzie Porter, CNN, 3 July 2017
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Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The Emerald Ridge room, for example, has original redwood-slat walls, an antique bedstead and river views, while the sunny Rhododendron boasts period wallpaper and a claw-foot tub.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
The only possible exit is a skylight, and the only means of reaching it is to build a tower from a bedstead and other bits of furniture.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
My dad had rigged a ramp up to a derelict bedstead and boarded over the springs.
—Jeanette Winterson, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
In guest rooms, fires and lamplight illuminate upholstered sleigh beds or traditional turned-wood New England bedsteads.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
One room boasts crimson walls and a large white wooden bedstead, with pretty floral bedding.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
Guest bedrooms are furnished with mother-of-pearl wardrobes from Syria and gold bedsteads from Egypt.
—Lizzie Porter, CNN, 3 July 2017
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“Bedstead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedstead. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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bedstead
noun
bed·stead
-ˌsted 
: the framework of a bed
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