ProbableNamed from the place
Alaskan King
noun · first attested 21st century
American bed sizes use state names as units of bigness.
A bed measuring 108 by 108 inches, larger than a king.
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- 21st century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Alaska
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Alaskan King
The scale runs through California king, which is longer and narrower than a standard king, to beds named for Texas, Wyoming and Alaska. Alaska is by far the largest state by area, and the Alaskan King is the largest of the beds, a nine-foot square. It is a specialty order rather than a standard retail size, and standard sheets do not fit it.
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