All of the rooms were fitted with pretty day-beds so that a cover quickly transformed them into couches and the bedrooms into sitting rooms.

Three large bavins set up his trade, with a bench, which, in the vacation of the afternoon, he used for his day-bed.

He is a day-bed for the devil to slumber on.

All about her, warm with candle-light, lay the gracious loveliness of the little room with its dark waxed furniture, its bright glazed chintz, its narrow bed with the cool linen sheets smelling of lavender, and its straight, patterned curtainsoh, that hateful, mustard-coloured den at home, with its golden-oak day-bed!