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Featherbed
Featherbed meaning
A mattress stuffed with feathers. | An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it. (Also in UK and Irish placenames.) | A soft, slow pitch of predictable bounce.
Example sentences (2)
Off Featherbed Lane in New Addington, the reserve is home to 40 of the UK’s 59 butterfly species, several varieties of orchid and a host of other invertebrates and wildflowers.
A Gutenberg press replica at the Featherbed Alley Printshop Museum, in Bermuda In the decades after Gutenberg, many conservative patrons looked down on cheap printed books; books produced by hand were considered more desirable.