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FEATHER BED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feather bed mean? 

FEATHER BED (noun)
  The noun FEATHER BED has 1 sense:

1. a mattress stuffed with feathersplay

  Familiarity information: FEATHER BED used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FEATHER BED (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A mattress stuffed with feathers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

feather bed; featherbed

Hypernyms ("feather bed" is a kind of...):

mattress (a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed)


 Context examples 


Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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