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Cushioning   /kˈʊʃənɪŋ/  /kˈʊʃnɪŋ/   Listen
noun
cushioning  n.  Soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort.
Synonyms: padding.


verb
Cushion  v. t.  (past & past part. cushioned; pres. part. cushioning)  
1.
To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. "Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity."
2.
To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
3.
To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.





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"Cushioning" Quotes from Famous Books



... remaining-trussed up over the small of his back, I drew his breeches quite down to his knees; and now he lay, in all the fairest, broadest display of that part of the back-view; in which a pair of chubby, smooth-cheeked and passing white posteriors rose cushioning upwards from two stout, fleshful thighs, and ending their cleft, or separation by an union at the small of the back, presented a bold mark, that swelled, as it ...
— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland
... ditches the cushioning moss is green and through the brown tangled weeds along Silver Creek the new grass is peeping. The sunny clearing back of Petersen's woods will be full of mushrooms as the days deepen. And already there are big golden dandelions in Widow ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... did not escape the all-grasping hands of the soldiery. In a back apartment there stood a mahogany couch or settee in a highly finished style. The woodwork of the couch was raised on all sides by cushioning, and costly covered by a rich figured silk. This to us was lumber, besides our carioles were full. However, we grabbed the mattrass and pallets all equally elegant as the couch. Having, as we thought, divested his Excellency of all the articles ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine


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