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Answer for the clue ""___ Talk," Doris Day film ", 6 letters:
pillow

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Middle English pilwe , from Old English pyle "pillow," from West Germanic *pulwi(n) (cognates: Old Saxon puli , Middle Dutch polu , Dutch peluw , Old High German pfuliwi , German Pfühl ), an early borrowing (2c. or 3c.) from Latin pulvinus "little cushion, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 304 Housing Units (2000): 139 Land area (2000): 0.479079 sq. miles (1.240809 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.479079 sq. miles (1.240809 sq. km) FIPS code: 60264 Located within: Pennsylvania ...

Usage examples of pillow.

Although he suspected the accusatory look resulted more from frustration than anger, when Marguerite merely shrugged and laid back against her pillow, Germaine concluded they had taxed her limited strength enough for one day.

The Wanderer To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires and architraves To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut, And roused by street-cries in strange tongues when day Flooded with gold some domed metropolis, Between new towers to waken and new bliss Spread on his pillow in a wondrous way: These were his joys.

The voice faded away as Josiah Bartram rested more easily upon his pillows.

In the words that Josiah Bartram uttered just before he fell back upon the pillows.

I missed my kangaroo rug and saddle for blanket and pillow, but I lighted up a good fire, and sometimes lying down, and sometimes walking about to prevent the night air from benumbing me, and occasionally having a peg at the kangaroo, making capital broils, I contrived to get through the night without losing my spirits.

One stept lightly on, and drew the bench which had lately pillowed the head of Lovel, closer to the fire, while the other, bending under the burthen in her arms, approached slower, and sitting down on the seat prepared for her, threw back her cloak, and discovered that she bore in her arms a sleeping child, about six years of age.

She lifted her head from her tear-soaked pillow and saw the leather bustier Steven had bought her.

He was delighted, on the other hand, by a woman relating the story of her daughter running into the parlor after finding a daddy longlegs on her pillow.

A two-foot-long, bulky piece of maguey stalk had been carved so that the porous tissue served as a pillow, or a neckrest.

Miss Marling declined this offer with every evidence of loathing, and releasing his lordship, hunted under her pillow for a handkerchief, and fiercely blew her small nose.

And under the pillow in the bedroom was a bag of old-fashioned marshmallow eggs for me.

I ever tell you about the patient I had at Metro who tried to take two pillows home with her?

I was seated on the parados blowing up an air pillow which had been sent to me by an English friend and watching the fight up at Souchez when Bill came up to me.

She tucked her hands under the pillows--lots of pillows--more pillows than a normal person would have--pillows that a paraplegic needed to hold one position or another.

And then, yielding to meditations of future success, partaking strongly of the inexperienced and sanguine temperament of the soliloquist, Clarence passed the hours till his pillow summoned him to dreams no less ardent and perhaps no less unreal.