| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Expression | 1. A bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. --Halliwell --Conybeare.[Websters]. | |
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Common Expressions: APPLE-PIE BED
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| Apple-pie bed | A bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. --Halliwell --Conybeare. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: APPLE-PIE BED
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| Apple-pie Bed | Literature | A bed in which the sheets are so folded that a person cannot get his legs down; from the apple turnover; or, more probably, a corruption of "a nap-pe-pli bed." (French, nappe pliée, a folded sheet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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