four-poster

1. 1.

   a bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains

   Broaderbed

   Partsleg

Questions about four-poster

What does four-poster mean?

four-poster means "a bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains".

How many syllables are in four-poster?

four-poster has 3 syllables: four--po-ster. The stress falls on "four-".

Is four-poster a common word?

four-poster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.