Usually means: Bed with four vertical columns.
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  1. four-poster: Merriam-Webster
  2. four-poster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. four-poster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. four-poster, four-poster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. four-poster: Vocabulary.com
  6. four-poster: Wordnik
  7. four-poster: Wiktionary
  8. four-poster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Four-poster, four-poster: Dictionary.com
  10. Four-poster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Four-poster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. four-poster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. four-poster: Rhymezone
  14. Four-poster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. four-poster: FreeDictionary.org
  16. four-poster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. four-poster: TheFreeDictionary.com

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adjective:  (attributive, of a bed) Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper.
noun:  A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.

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