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cushioned, ppl. a.|ˈkʊʃənd|
[f. cushion n. and v. + -ed.]
1. a. Furnished or fitted with a cushion or cushions.
1839J. L. Stephens Trav. Greece, etc. 65/1, I had a large cushioned seat of the diligence to myself. 1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. i. 21 The top of the locker is cushioned, and serves for a lounge.
b. transf. Cf. sense 6 below.
1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 400 Grass-cushioned crags. 1863Possib. of Creation 235 The cushioned, spreading feet [of the camel]. 1960New Statesman 30 Jan. 146/1 An earth-to-moon flight with a cushioned landing on the moon and return flight to the earth.
c. Padded. See cushion n. 3 b.
1777Colman Epil. Sheridan's Sch. Scandal, Farewell the plumèd head, the cushion'd tête. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 32 Our ladies..When bishop'd, and cushion'd, and hoop'd to the chin.
d. Cycling. Furnished with cushion-tires.
1891Wheeling 11 Mar. 453 The best plan..is that..of making forks wide enough for either pneumatic or cushioned wheels.
e. fig. Of the voice: soft and smooth, velvety.
1909Daily Chron. 20 Jan. 5/6 Complaining for two hours against fate in that cushioned voice of hers. 1920Galsworthy In Chancery ii. xiii, There was comfort in her cushioned voice.
2. a. Seated on, or propped up with cushions.
1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets v. (1870) 116 The in-door quiet and cushioned ease. 1877Blackie Wise Men 274 A languid life And cushioned soft recumbency.
b. fig. Comfortable; protected.
a1941V. Woolf Captain's Death Bed (1950) 32 A luxurious, educated, cushioned career for life.
3. Arch. cushioned capital = cushion capital, (see cushion n. 11.)
1754Gray Norman Archit. Wks. 1884 I. 298 The capitals of the piers..have great variety in their forms; the square, the octagon, the cushioned, or swelling beneath.
4. Bot. Cushion-shaped, pulvinate.
1832Lindley Introd. Bot. iv. Gloss. 374 Cushioned (pulvinatus), convex and rather flattened; seldom used.
5. Billiards. Placed close to the cushion. Said also of the player whose ball is so placed.
1770J. Love Cricket 5 Or when the Ball, close cushion'd, slides askew, And to the op'ning Pocket runs, a Cou.
6. Of air: made into a ‘cushion’.
1935Times 4 Mar. 11/3 It has been held that lift rapidly decreases when the helicopter moves above the area of cushioned air created where the down-wash from the screws strikes the earth. |
