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featherbed
[ feth-er-bed ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to subject to or engage in featherbedding.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of featherbed1
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Example Sentences
Return to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean.
A bit of straw matting, laid over a featherbed, and covered with the under sheet, makes a very cool bed for an infant.
God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.
“Now my featherbed,” says Aunt Elvira, and she has the porter jam it in alongside of me, which makes more or less of a full house.
He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy.
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