featherbed
2
5.3
- noun
- /ˈfɛðərˌbɛd/
:
colchón de plumas
- After a long day, I sank into my soft featherbed and drifted off to sleep.
All you have to do now is lay back into a featherbed and let go.
- All you have to do now is lay back into a featherbed and let go.
Examples
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Grandmother's room, which was shrouded in perpetual gloom, had an air of melancholy and smelled of velvet, mothballs, and featherbeds.
Fiction book (1998) -
It was not snow, but a featherbed, gloriously warm and safe: it was rest.
Fiction book (2001) -
All you have to do now is lay back into a featherbed and let go.
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I used to do that as we lay together in our featherbed.
Fiction book (1996) -
With the featherbed beneath her, she floated on a cloud.
Academic text (2007) -
Your very own featherbed, in lieu of a straw mat.
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When the man and wife tucked the boy into his featherbed, they kissed his fingers and his nose.
Fiction book (1997) -
His naked body pressed against hers; she sank into the deep contours of the featherbed.
Fiction book (1997) -
Every day that we wake up on the featherbed, without my husband, is just as real as the days I wake up beside him—a fact obvious even to dogs.
Fiction book (2000) -
One day, weeks before Elizabeth's wedding, Peggy smiled at me from the middle of her featherbed as I was putting away the dress Mama had made that she would wear as a bridesmaid.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
277
1.0
A thick, soft pad put on a bed for sleeping
2
3.9
A soft mattress filled with feathers to keep you warm while sleeping
A mattress filled with straw or feathers for sleeping
How Soft
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Featherbed is made from the simple words feather and bed and originally meant a bed filled with feathers that was very soft and warm. So a featherbed today is a soft mattress that helps you sleep comfortably.