Definitions
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- adjective Fitted with a
counterpane .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow white - counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the left-hand side of the window.
Sole Music 2010
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Jury sat on the narrow, white-counterpaned bed, in the narrow room, white-walled.
the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985
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The dominant feature was a fourposter on a dais, sumptuously canopied and counterpaned.
Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972
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He saw a candle-lit room with a vast white-counterpaned bed, and himself, a boy of nine or ten, sitting on the floor, shaking a dice-box, and laughing excitedly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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A brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow white - counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the left-hand side of the window.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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Slowly, she turned from her reflection in the mirror and dropped down on the edge of the daintily counterpaned bed.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson
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The cogitations of the first half hour in the white counterpaned bed that night left Elizabeth in a maze of wonder over his physical as well as mental collapse.
The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger
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A brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow white - counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the left-hand side of the window.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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It was extraordinary with what a microscopic minuteness of loathing he hated it all: the grimy carpet and wallpaper, the black marble mantel-piece, the clock with a gilt allegory under a dusty bell, the high-bolstered brown-counterpaned bed, the framed card of printed rules under the electric light switch, and the door of communication with the next room.
The Reef; a novel 1912
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There was a great rug upon the floor, a white-sheeted and counterpaned bed, fresh pajamas, table, chair, alcohol-stove, glasses and cups and water-pitchers.
The Bells of San Juan Jackson Gregory 1912
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