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

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

Though written with no little art, it has the warm, excessive, disconcerting and soporific sweetness of a bottomless feather bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

She took the hint and fled, leaving him alone in the darkness, sinking deeper into his feather bed.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin