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The skeleton beneath your dreams, doing all the work while the mattress takes the credit.
means The framework of a bed — the frame and supports that hold the mattress and bedding off the floor.
from A straightforward Old English compound: 'bed' joined with 'stead,' meaning a place or standing spot (the same 'stead' that survives in 'instead,' 'homestead,' and 'steadfast'). So a bedstead is literally the 'bed-place' — the fixed standing of the bed. 'Stead' descends from Old English 'stede,' a cousin of German 'Statt' and ultimately tied to the ancient root for standing, the same family that gives us 'stand' and 'stable.'
- old word
- Outlived by the bed it once carried
- bedbug bunker
- Crevices in frames are prime nesting real estate
- once portable
- Wealthy travelers hauled dismantled frames between estates
- four-poster origin
- Posts held curtains for warmth and privacy