featherbed

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  1. intransitive verb To engage in or promote featherbedding.
  2. adjective Relating to or promoting featherbedding: featherbed rules.

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  • But I figured on no featherbed, no downy sweet lady in a distant saloon; I had chosen the hard path.
  • In the course of his excavation he reached Mrs. Walters's featherbed, upon which he must have fallen with fresh violence, tooth and nail, in the idea that so many feathers could not possibly mean feathers only. —  AFTERMATH: PART SECOND OF A KENTUCKY CARDINAL
  • The holidays always started like this – you kissed Aunt Sophy in the hall, and it was exactly like kissing a featherbed which smelled of lavender. —  The Key - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 08
  • Then I lay down to rest upon an ill-smelling featherbed, drawing a dusty musketo-net about me. —  FSF,March2008
  • Plus the featherbed is due to arrive any day now …. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
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