Definition of "featherbeds" [featherbeds]

• Plural form of featherbed. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of featherbed. (verb)

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• "These wives, at the exact moment her mother's gray eyes rested on their features whether doughy or sharp, were most likely lying awake under thick featherbeds, listening to the cracks and ticks of their sleeping house, instinctively knowing their husband was in a hotel bar thousands of miles and many times zones away."
• "She had expected nests of hay and sticks, however, and was greatly surprised to find that instead they had built "nests" of piles of featherbeds, with tough wool blankets over them to save the beds from the punishing effects of sharp talons."
• "So we take money from the economy from greedy rich people, who just roll around in that cash on their four-poster featherbeds, and from evil corporations, who squander the money on nonsense like corporate golf outings, corporate jets, and equipment to make their silly little widgets, and then we put that money back into the economy, through programs like the Community Reinvestment Act, ACORN, and our much-neglected and profit-generating infrastructure."