state-bed-stead

Updated: February 24, 2026

There is now at Aix-la-Chapelle a huge state-bed-stead, on the posts, sides, and footboards of which it is elaborately carved, in the manner of the sixteenth century; and it was even made the ornament of ladies' fans.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859