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Definition of Pillow

Pillow

Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.

A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.

A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

A kind of plain, coarse fustian.

To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.

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Pillow Quotations

Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael Jackson

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
Kate Moss

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
Lee Trevino

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang

Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.
Sue Johanson

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
Drew Barrymore

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.
Emile Hirsch

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
William Cowper

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.
Debbie Gibson

Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!
Denise Van Outen

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
Malcolm Mclaren

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.
Dawn Powell

I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
Lacey Chabert

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Samuel West

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.
Robert Palmer

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Pillow Translations

pillow in Danish is pude
pillow in Dutch is hoofdkussen
pillow in French is oreiller
pillow in German is Kissen, Kopfkissen
pillow in Italian is guanciale
pillow in Norwegian is hodepute
pillow in Portuguese is almofada, descanso
pillow in Spanish is travesero, almohada
pillow in Swedish is huvudkudde, kudde

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