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featherbed
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mattress stuffed with feathers [syn: feather bed ] v. treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper , cosset , cocker , baby , coddle , mollycoddle , spoil , indulge ] ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
featherbed \featherbed\ n. 1. a mattress stuffed with feathers. Syn: feather bed.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (label en transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle n. A mattress stuffed with feathers vb. (label en transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A featherbed is a type of bedding traditionally used on top of mattresses to help make them softer. They can be made either with feathers , down , or a combination of both materials. Such a bed should be frequently shaken out or fluffed, to keep the feathers ...
Usage examples of featherbed.
He plodded the few steps over to the featherbed, took the spot nearest the wall, wrapped one of the blankets around himself, and sank down onto the mattress.
With that to warn him, Lan hastily finished his breakfast and put on his cloak, while Tuck helped the innkeeper get the featherbed back up into the loft.
Between the food, the almost full tub of steaming water, and the featherbed, she was in hog heaven.
The featherbed was soft and warm against her bare skin, and she thought of the firm, hard hospital bed and shuddered.
Cecil flattered and cajoled him, portrayed England as a place of civility and charm, a featherbed into which James could at last relax after all the stony travails of his Scottish youth.
James himself was something of a drinker - he liked the heady, sweet malmseys from southern Greece, a featherbed of a drink - but there was no keeping up with Christian and his Danes.
Dressed only in her fine lawn undergown, she sat on the featherbed and kicked off her satin slippers.
Kief and Tasha transferred Tarlna from it to the featherbed that had been brought outside.
There the magnificently overstuffed featherbed welcomed him with outstretched pillows.
Asha took the little featherbed that had been crammed onto the window seat in the dormer at the narrow end.
Moreover, Madame, learning of her indisposition, not only gave up her own featherbed to her, but made her a tisane, and showed herself to be in general so full of sympathy that the ill-used beauty, in spite of aching head and limbs, began to feel very much more cheerful, and even expressed a desire to have her child brought to kiss her before he went to bed.
Once he opened the window and flung himself down on a pile of featherbeds and comforters, it was rather pleasant up in the attic.
Then, as there was a mountain chill in the morning air, he crawled back into bed, hauling his night cap over his generous ears and rolling himself in a cocoon of featherbeds, until he should emerge about noon, like some sleek, fat moth.
They had rested then on clean featherbeds, awaking refreshed when their young guides came for them.
The Eika slept, sprawled across the stone as if it were the softest of featherbeds to them.