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n. - A place to sleep made of boards (without a mattress).

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  • You can have a seat on a plank-bed there are comfortable chairs for the more delicate and eat your food with an aluminum fork.
  • A horsehair sofa, of a hard old-fashioned type, formed a downy couch for one; the dining-table, covered by one of the travelling-rugs, answered as a bed -- rather of the prison...
  • Many people leave woven kerchiefs and gifts, hung on the parapet of the plank-bed.
  • There ought to have been a crucifix on the wall above the plank-bed, but there wasn't a crucifix.
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