Pillow definition

Pillow

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WordNet

(1) A cushion to support the head of a sleeping person

(2) Rest on or as if on a pillow

"Pillow your head"

WiktionaryText

Old English pyle, pylw-, from West Germanic *pulwi-, borrowed from clasical Latin pulvīnus ‘cushion’. Cognate with Dutch peluw, German Pfühl.

To rest as on a pillow.
- 1942: She had pillowed her head on her arm — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)