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My main location was a bed that was covered in gold blankets, adorned with golden bedposts and backed by golden drapes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2025

The latter felt vaguely radical in the nineteen-seventies; now it is increasingly sweet and rare to hear ordinary things like sweaters, coasters, brass bedposts, and white linens memorialized with such care and delicacy.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2019

He also built the dining room table that his family still uses, and he hand-carved the bedposts on the four-poster bed he shares with his wife under plaques displaying the Ten Commandments.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2017

Batten down the bedposts — "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1," with its vampire honeymoon and extremely creepy pregnancy, arrives in theaters Nov. 18.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2011

Overhead, strings of globe lights were looped around tall mirrors, bedposts, and the odd nonfunctional chandelier.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon