four-poster

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

four-post·er (also four-poster bed) • n. a bed with a post at each corner, sometimes supporting a canopy.


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Creating a canopy bed is a sheer delight.(New Homes)(Make your new house a home)
; ...Daily Herald Staff Writer Canopy beds have shed their...trick. The basics: A four-poster bed has posts extending upward...you're going to install a canopy, you'll need additional...between the posts without a canopy. More informally, a long...draped over the posts and canopy ... Read more
Canopy care gives 20-20 vision.(Avenger Missile System ...)
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Bell tolls for bridge canopy as residents say it ruins the view
; ...set to spend GBP 250,000 demolishing the canopy over the toll plaza after residents complained...up to GBP 2m, it had been thought the canopy would be left in place to stop the bill...today said residents have complained the canopy was spoiling their views of the Forth... Read more
Canopy stretches corporate structure MOTOROLA * CANOPY ENGINEERS BROUGHT BROADBAND SERVICE TO UNDERSERVED AREAS AND BYPASSED THE TRADITIONAL CHANNELS
; Canopy, a wireless broadband technology developed by Motorola...high-speed Internet access in an isolated area of Texas. Canopy has made it possible for users in unserved and underserved...Tony Kobrinetz, 51, vice president and general manager of Canopy, described Canopy as "Motorola's start-up." ... Read more
Canopy Group settles with former executives
; PROVO -- The Canopy Group, a venture-capital firm based in...December. According to the settlement, former Canopy chief executive officer Ralph Yarro, former...undisclosed sum of money. Yarro also will get Canopy's 5.49 million shares of SCO stock, valued... Read more
SERAC's Canopy[R] bottles it up brilliantly.(PACKAGING & EQUIPMENT)(Brief Article)
; SERAC of France has developed Canopy[R], a completely new generation of monobloc...providing exceptional accessibility. The Canopy[R] concept is based on six patents filed...by the company. A major feature of the Canopy[R] machines is that the mechanical components... Read more
Mixed views as canopy faces axe; CONTROVERSY: Some say they will miss meeting at 'dated' tent.(Features)
; Byline: By Warren Manger THE controversial canopy over the Lady Godiva statue in Coventry...Martins Property Corporation, said: The canopy now looks dated, is difficult to maintain...understand that following the removal of the canopy, the council will enhance the area, which... Read more
Companies keeping quiet about Canopy.
; ...quiet tones -- if at all -- about The Canopy Group, a once shining source of Utah venture...struggle. One by one, most employees within Canopy, and at the dozens of companies owing...refuse to comment. The word is out at Canopy, more than one employee says, that to... Read more
Godiva canopy could go at last.(News)
; ...Broadgate. Since it went up in 1990 the canopy over the entrance to Cathedral Lanes shopping...the end of the much-maligned tent. The canopy's future is up for debate because of the...shopping area. Cathedral Lanes and the canopy have not been included in that masterplan... Read more
CANOPY PLAN STIRS REVOLT, COLONIAL-STYLE
; ...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-12-1996 CANOPY PLAN STIRS REVOLT, COLONIAL-STYLE -- HAWORTH...troops. Just the place for a "colonial" canopy over the pumps of a gas station, says...Board of Adjustment for an 18-foot-high canopy at its station at Schraalenburgh and Haworth... Read more

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