Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bed filled with flocks, or locks of wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine; a bed stuffed with flock, or the refuse of wool. Also called
flock .
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Examples
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The poor girl was seated on her little flock-bed, plunged in a deep reverie.
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Jeanie, who now returned, was lost in amazement at the wonderful difference betwixt the helpless and despairing girl, whom she had seen stretched on a flock-bed in a dungeon, expecting a violent and disgraceful death, and last as a forlorn exile upon the midnight beach, with the elegant, well-bred, beautiful woman before her.
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Bench, the companion of gamblers and scoundrels -- sleeping in wretchedness and dirt on a flock-bed -- another reposing in down and velvet in a splendid apartment in a splendid house, the guest of rank, fashion, and beauty. '
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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To swig porter all day, on a flock-bed to sleep, [4]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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At these words Darè was well pleased, and he leaped for joy so that the seams of his flock-bed rent in twain beneath him.
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You must bring your mind to your circumstances, Bessy, and not be thinking o silver and chany; but whether you shall get so much as a flock-bed to lie on, and a blanket to cover you, and a stool to sit on.
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He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garret, where there was a number of rats and mice that often ran over the poor boy's nose and disturbed him in his sleep.
Blue Fairy Book 1889
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He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garret, where there was a number of rats and mice that often ran over the poor boy's nose and disturbed him in his sleep.
The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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Captain Paget had sunk very low in the world when he took possession of that wretched parlour and laid himself down to rest on the widow's flock-bed.
Birds of Prey 1875
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You must bring your mind to your circumstances, Bessy, and not be thinking o 'silver and chany; but whether you shall get so much as a flock-bed to lie on, and a blanket to cover you, and a stool to sit on.
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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