"security blanket" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Linus van Pelt's security blanket in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "security blankets",
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        "plural"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life."
      ],
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          "blanket",
          "blanket"
        ],
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          "feeling",
          "feeling"
        ],
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          "anxiety",
          "anxiety"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
          "word": "turvariepu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Kuscheldecke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "snuttefilt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "pâa-nâo",
          "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
          "word": "ผ้าเน่า"
        }
      ]
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That rabbit's foot is his security blanket.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any object one uses to have a sense of security or reduced anxiety."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "11 89",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "any object used to produce sense of security",
          "word": "turvariepu"
        },
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          "_dis1": "11 89",
          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "any object used to produce sense of security",
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          "word": "snuttefilt"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "security blanket"
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  "word": "security blanket"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From Linus van Pelt's security blanket in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.",
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    {
      "form": "security blankets",
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        "A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life."
      ],
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        [
          "blanket",
          "blanket"
        ],
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          "feeling",
          "feeling"
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          "anxiety",
          "anxiety"
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        {
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        "Any object one uses to have a sense of security or reduced anxiety."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
      "word": "turvariepu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kuscheldecke"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "snuttefilt"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "pâa-nâo",
      "sense": "blanket used to produce secure feeling",
      "word": "ผ้าเน่า"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any object used to produce sense of security",
      "word": "turvariepu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "any object used to produce sense of security",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "snuttefilt"
    }
  ],
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  "word": "security blanket"
}