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Brewer's: Apple-pie Bed
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: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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