half-tester

But once the door had shut on their hostess they gathered round the bed — a narrow half-tester — in which they were expected to lie three in a row, and let their real feelings out.

Growing Pains 2003

The half-tester loomed over her head like a black cloud.

Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

He forced his eyes open to find himself gazing up at the scalloped half-tester over Emily's bed.

Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

We approached the bed and examined it—a half-tester, such as is commonly found in attics devoted to servants.

The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921

The hangings and coverlet of the great, ebony, half-tester bed were lined with rose silk, and worked, with many coloured worsteds on a white ground, in the elaborate Persian pattern so popular among industrious ladies of leisure in the reign of good Queen Anne.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

We approached the bed and examined it, -- a half-tester, such as is commonly found in attics devoted to servants.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

In the best bedroom the bedstead is a tubular half-tester, the toilet-ware gold and white, the carpet again tapestry.

Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886

In the parents 'bedroom are a half-tester bedstead with coir-fibre or woollen flock mattress, two cane chairs, washstand, toilet-table, glass and ware, towel-horse, chest of drawers, and a couple of yards of bedside carpet.

Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886

They passed into Mrs Cruden's bedroom, and the thought of the delightful snug little boudoir at Garden Vale sent a shiver through them as they glanced at the bare walls, the dilapidated half-tester, the chipped and oddly assorted crockery.

Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

We approached the bed and examined it -- a half-tester, such as is commonly found in attics devoted to servants.

Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838