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Definition of "feather-bed" [feather-bed]

  • Alternative spelling of featherbed. (verb)

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Use "feather-bed" in a sentence
  • "The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close."
  • "We note with interest the feather-bed on which Helen Bailey has fallen, after her exit from the boys' club that Sir Nick Macpherson runs at HM Treasury."
  • "He laughed, pulling me into the great pink feather-bed."