Meaning of box bed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The floor of a boxcar.
2. A garden with a box-like frame around it; a raised bed.

Examples

“However, during the 1950s through to the 1970s the removal of the partition forming part of the enclosure to the box bed recesses to increase⟳ the size of rooms was common.”

“In the Netherlands, the box bed was widely used well into the twentieth century, especially in rural areas, but also in working-class housing.”

“Anyways now that you haven't had your almonds and don't remember⟳ the reason⟳ why we couldn't turn⟳ the bed upside down I will tell⟳ you just one more time that our bed, our big double⟳ bed, is a box bed!”

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