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Quotation dates: 1891
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COFF-FRONTED, adj. comb. Of a bed: half closed or shuttered. Not known to our correspondents.Ags. 1891 (2nd ed.) J. M. Barrie Little Minister iii.:
Every room save Margaret's had long-lidded beds, which close as if with shutters, but hers was coff-fronted, or comparatively open, with carving on the wood like the ornamentation of coffns.
