feather bed

American  

noun

1. a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.

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feather bed British  

noun

1. a mattress filled with feathers or down

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verb

1. (tr) to pamper; spoil

2. (intr) to be subject to or engage in featherbedding

Etymology

Origin of feather bed

before 1000; Middle English, Old English

Example Sentences

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feather bed

Serenading the car in the movie’s earworm, Oscar-nominated title song, she sings, “You’re sleek as a thoroughbred / Your seats are a feather bed / You’ll turn everybody’s head today.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021

“Wallflower” was produced and arranged by the megahit maker David Foster, whose lush but static string arrangements, written by William Ross, couch each song on a soft feather bed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2015

Each song tosses another blanket atop a feather bed, another log on a fire, a series of stories to send the imagination drifting as winter closes in.

From Chicago Tribune ● Nov. 18, 2011

The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It does sound too nice for words, I must say. A feather bed and none of those few- mets for ever so long. How long did you say it would take us to get there?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White