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单词 pillowless
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pillowlessadj.

Brit. /ˈpɪləʊlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpɪloʊləs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pillow n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < pillow n. + -less suffix.
Without a pillow; having no padding.
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1845 E. Cook Poems 2nd Ser. 83 We On our pillowless couch sleep as soundly as he.
1878 J. Payn By Proxy I. xii. 142 A few strokes of the huge key knocked out the wedges that confined Fu-chow to his pillowless couch.
1959 Times 28 Aug. 11/3 The mountain heights..offered no seats to Wotan or Brünnhilde, whose final position was pillowless and uncomfortably horizontal.
2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 July b1 They escorted me to a holding cell with three small, pillowless beds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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