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four-posters

four-posters is the plural of four-poster.

Meaning of four-poster

Noun

four-poster (plural four-posters)

  1. A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.
    • ... the bed, an immense four-poster with different rosewood fruits carved crudely on its high headboard, was suffocatingly soft and his body had sunk deep in its feathery center.1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 2
    Synonyms:
    four-poster bed

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Questions about four-posters

What is four-posters the plural of?
Four-posters is the plural of four-poster.

Words near four-posters in the dictionary

  1. four-pointing
  2. four-points
  3. four-poster
  4. four-poster bed
  5. four-poster beds
  6. four-posters
  7. four-pounder
  8. four-pounders
  9. four-quadrant
  10. four-ring
  11. four-rings

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