feather-bed

A form of featherbed — A mattress stuffed with feathers.

Meanings

verbfeather-bed (third-person singular simple present feather-beds, present participle feather-bedding, simple past and past participle feather-bedded)

present singular third person feather-beds · participle present feather-bedding · participle past feather-bedded · past feather-bedded

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of featherbed.
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Chicago

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