- A hanging bed - Hanging bed - Sailor’s bed makes bad actor sneer - String bed makes amateur scoff - Swinging couch - A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas
about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. - A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with
bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
- Length of decorative drapery - Pelmet - Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like,
especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the
floor. - The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers
the joint when the lid is closed. - To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or
drapery.
- Drape - A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and
admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp.,
drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in
theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. - That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two
bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. - That part of a wall of a building which is between two
pavilions, towers, etc. - A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. - To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.