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

The safety features led to Titanic being considered by many to be "unsinkable".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

These features led Greenblatt and his colleagues to suspect that they form through a different mechanism than other bones.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2023

Their fair hair, regular, somewhat cold, features led him to suppose that they were brothers.

From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)

The calm, triumphant expression which lit up the features, led him to expect a movement of the lips, but it needed only a second glance to discover that Hay-uta the Sauk was dead.

From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Madame de Lansac was tall, and her features led people to say, "That must have been a handsome woman!"

From Domestic Peace by Bell, Clara