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Truckle-bed   Listen
noun
Truckle-bed  n.  A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed. "His standing bed and truckle-bed."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Truckle-bed" Quotes from Famous Books



... are connected with the Beauseants, and we go afoot through the streets; we want to be rich, and we have not a penny; we eat Mme. Vauquer's messes, and we like grand dinners in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; we sleep on a truckle-bed, and dream of a mansion! I do not blame you for wanting these things. What sort of men do the women run after? Men of ambition. Men of ambition have stronger frames, their blood is richer in iron, their hearts are warmer than those of ordinary men. ...
— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac

... of a pleasant garden, smiling beneath the influence of budding May. In the midst of all this gilded luxury, on a rich, inlaid floor of costly woods, were seen arranged in regular order four rows of beds, of every shape and kind, from the humble truckle-bed to the handsome ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... besides Women," A. 1, S. 3 (Dyce's edit, iii., 575), Dondolo, after a song by his page, says, "Oh rich, ravishing, rare, and inticing. Well, go thy ways, for as sweet a brested page as ever lay at his master's feet in a truckle-bed." And in the same writer's "Women beware ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley



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