box bed

box bed (plural box beds)

1. Alternative form of box-bed
   • 2006, James Douglas, Building Adaptation, →ISBN, page 325:

     However, during the 1950s through to the 1970s the removal of the partition forming part of the enclosure to the box bed recesses to increase the size of rooms was common.

   • 2008, Lodewijk Brunt, Brigitte Steger, Worlds of Sleep, →ISBN, page 78:

     In the Netherlands, the box bed was widely used well into the twentieth century, especially in rural areas, but also in working-class housing.

   • 2015, Sanjeev Srivastava, Dream Girl: Set Free, →ISBN:

     Anyways now that you haven't had your almonds and don't remember the reason why we couldn't turn the bed upside down I will tell you just one more time that our bed, our big double bed, is a box bed!

2. The floor of a boxcar.
3. A garden with a box-like frame around it; a raised bed.

• bedbox