pillow sham

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   bed linen consisting of a decorative cover for a pillow

   Broaderbed linen

Questions about pillow sham

What does pillow sham mean?

pillow sham means "bed linen consisting of a decorative cover for a pillow".

Is pillow sham a common word?

pillow sham 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.