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Meanings of feather bed in English

Portuguese
penugem
Spanish
colchón de plumas

A mattress stuffed with feathers.

penugem
Synonyms
Examples for "featherbed"
Examples for "featherbed"
1
Great featherbed clouds are billowing across the sun, their edges brilliant silver.
I capture the castle
2
Her featherbed was twice as wide and lofty as my straw-and-rag-filled shakedown.
Caleb's crossing
3
The bed hangings were askew and the featherbed dumped unceremoniously on the floor.
The Oracle Glass
4
The bedding smelled of down must, and the pungent straw beneath the featherbed.
The bone palace
5
For a moment she thought about the High King's featherbed.
The last page
Usage of feather bed in English
1
When he died they found twenty thousand roubles in his feather bed.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
2
He was warmed and fed enormously and rolled into a feather bed.
Judith of the Godless Valley
3
Natásha wept, sitting on the blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend.
War and Peace
4
A joiner had a one-room house with a feather bed and bolster.
Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
5
Some recommend a feather bed, but I think an Expert is better.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
6
There was green grass to sleep on, soft as any feather bed.
To the blight: the eye of the world
7
Why, Bob, it was like coming down on a big feather bed.
The Bobbsey Twins / Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out
8
Upon a trellis supported by lion's claws a feather bed was laid.
Mike Fletcher: A Novel
9
She slept uncommonly well that night in the warm and pleasant feather bed.
L'Assommoir
10
It would be convanient to have one feather bed in the corps, anyway.
The Spy
11
I have such a huge room, with a four-post feather bed in it.
The Visits of Elizabeth
12
On the rumpled feather bed lay a creased and crumpled quilt.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
13
He hadn't felt the touch of a feather bed in years.
The Root of Evil
14
She stared at me as if I had asked for a feather bed.
Three Men on the Bummel
15
Before she was married she had begun saving for her first feather bed.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
16
He must sleep on a horse-hair mattress, and not on a feather bed.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
Translations for feather bed
Portuguese
penugem