ProbableNamed from the place
Hollywood bed
noun · first attested 1947
A bed named for glamour that mostly means "we left the footboard off."
A bed of mattress and box spring on a low legged frame with a headboard and no footboard.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 1947
- Part of speech
- noun
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Hollywood
- In English
Hollywood bed
The term is recorded in American English from the late 1940s, when an upholstered headboard over a low open frame looked like film-star luxury. No documented Hollywood origin exists; the name borrows the movie town's shine much as Hollywood Regency furniture does.
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