pillow

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We cut to Downey chained to a bed naked except for a pillow covering his genitals, and he asks her to remain calm and that under the pillow is the "key to his release" and the shocked woman runs out screaming.

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  1. noun A cloth case, stuffed with something soft, such as down, feathers, or foam rubber, used to cushion the head, especially during sleep.
  2. noun A decorative cushion.
  3. noun The pad on which bobbin lace is made.

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  • Under the pillow was a pale yellow egg, no more than a few centimeters long. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 02 - August 2002
  • And the pillow was an amorphous bag stuffed with—he wasn't sure what, but it certainly wasn't dried pine nuts, like his pillow back home The bald man—Ponter had now seen that there was a stubble against his dark scalp, so the baldness must be an affectation, not a congenital condition—had left the room. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
  • To draw my pistol from under my pillow was the work of a second; to fire it into the body of the man who was trying to stab me, that of another. —  Sketches From My Life
  • On the pillow is a nightcap, in which even a homely woman would be beautiful. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
  • We cut to Downey chained to a bed naked except for a pillow covering his genitals, and he asks her to remain calm and that under the pillow is the "key to his release" and the shocked woman runs out screaming. —  ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English pyle, from West Germanic *pulwī, from Latin pulvīnus.

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  1. from ME, pillowe, pylowe, pelow, pelowe, pilwe, pulwe, pylwe, pule (also pelwere, pulwere), from Anglo-Saxon * pylwe found only in the reduced form pyle, = Middle Dutch puluwe, pulwe, Dutch peluw, peuluw = Middle Low German pole, pōl, Low German poel = Old High German phulwi, fulwi, phuluwi, fuluwi, phulawi, phuliwi, phulwo, Middle High German phulwe, pfulwe, German pfühl, a pillow; derived at a very early period, with omission of the L. termination-nus, from Latin pulvīnus, also pulvīnar, Middle Latin also diminutive pulvillus, a pillow, bolster, cushion.
  2. from pillow, n.
 

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