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BED PILLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bed pillow mean? 

BED PILLOW (noun)
  The noun BED PILLOW has 1 sense:

1. a soft pillow for use on a bedplay

  Familiarity information: BED PILLOW used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BED PILLOW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A soft pillow for use on a bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bed pillow" is a kind of...):

pillow (a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person)


 Context examples 


When they arrived at Mr Korbes’s house, he was not at home; so the mice drew the carriage into the coach-house, Chanticleer and Partlet flew upon a beam, the cat sat down in the fireplace, the duck got into the washing cistern, the pin stuck himself into the bed pillow, the millstone laid himself over the house door, and the egg rolled himself up in the towel.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)



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