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ˈfield-bed
1. A portable or folding bed chiefly for use in the field; a camp or trestle bedstead.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Lict de camp, a fielde bed. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon v. 10 A fair field-bed with a canopy. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. lv. 604 The Spanyard..made his brags, that he had turned the English ensigns into Spanish field-beds. 1728De Foe Capt. Carleton (1841) 33 He ordered his field-bed to be put up near the powder.
2. A bed in the open field or upon the ground.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. i. 40 Ile to my truckle bed, This Field bed is to cold for me to sleepe. 1645G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 II. 42 The night is fled, and Daye's best Chorister Kickes his feild-Bed with Scorne. 1754A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 100 He was making his Brags that he had been in a Field-bed with a young Lady, whose Brother was present.
attrib.1599Massinger, etc. Old Law iv. ii, A ‘strumpet’ and a ‘whore’..And such fine field-bed words. |