"four-poster" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} four-poster (not comparable)
  1. (attributive, of a bed) Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper. Tags: attributive, not-comparable Categories (topical): Furniture
    Sense id: en-four-poster-en-adj-wYkS-xca Disambiguation of Furniture: 49 51

Noun

Forms: four-posters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} four-poster (plural four-posters)
  1. A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy. Categories (topical): Bedding, Furniture Synonyms: four-poster bed Translations (four-poster bed): легло с балдахин (leglo s baldahin) [neuter] (Bulgarian), llit de columnes (Catalan), llit de dosser (Catalan), himmelseng [common-gender] (Danish), hemelbed (Dutch), pylvässänky (Finnish), lit à baldaquin [masculine] (French), Himmelbett [neuter] (German), himmelseng [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), himmelseng [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), łóżko z baldachimem [neuter] (Polish), четырёхно́гий (četyrjoxnógij) [masculine] (Russian), четырёхно́гая (četyrjoxnógaja) [feminine] (Russian), четырёхно́гое (četyrjoxnógoje) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-four-poster-en-noun-eG9cqjJh Disambiguation of Bedding: 25 75 Disambiguation of Furniture: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 18 82 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 17 83

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