pillow
noun
a bag or case made of cloth that is filled with feathers, down, or other soft material, and is used to cushion the head during sleep or rest.
pillowed
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past participleof pillow.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pillow.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pillownouna bag or case made of cloth that is filled with feathers, down, or other soft material, and is used to cushion the head during sleep or rest.
Example Sentences
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But a new facade of pillowed concrete, along with arched skylights in the workshop areas, add touches of refinement to what is essentially a space to make artistic messes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2019
I raced through steep pine forests pillowed with heavy snow and frozen aspens, the Wasatch mountains rolling by in swirls of purple and brilliant white.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2016
So, in Bright Star, Keats is not just Romantic but romantic too: head pillowed upon fair Fanny’s breast, mooning about in blue velvet tails, he essentially speaks in his own verse.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2012
The hand-painted rugs and gilded décor of the famous Rue Cambon salon, where pillowed banquettes suggested an Istanbul tea house, showed the designer at his inventive best.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
Oft doth reason, enthroned in the pillowed seraglio of the brain, hang back; whereas the flesh, which must walk abroad in the streets, finds its own temerity.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
