box-bed

plural box-beds · alternative boxbed · alternative box bed

1. A bed that is completely enclosed to provide the occupant with privacy, resembling a freestanding box or built into a wall.

   She had turned when they reached the candle-lit attic with its high uncurtained windows and its red-covered box beds […].

   1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 78

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   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

2. 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

3. 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