See featherbed in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle",
"word": "tener entre algodones"
}
],
"word": "featherbed"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: especially UK, Dartmoor",
"path": [
"featherbed"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "featherbed",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: especially UK, Dartmoor",
"path": [
"featherbed"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "featherbed",
"trace": ""
}
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