feather bed

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   a mattress stuffed with feathers

   Synonymsfeatherbed

   Broadermattress

Questions about feather bed

What does feather bed mean?

feather bed means "a mattress stuffed with feathers".

What is another word for feather bed?

Close synonyms include featherbed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feather bed a common word?

feather bed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.