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pillowbere

pillowbere is the alternative form of pillowbeer.

Meaning of pillowbeer

Noun

pillowbeer (plural pillowbeers)

  1. (Northern England, US, regional) A pillowcase.
    • When Zoylus was sicke, he knew not where / Saue his wrought night cap, and laune Pillow-bere:1599, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum: The three last bookes : Of byting Satyres, page 85

Forms of pillowbere

pluralpillowberes

Questions about pillowbere

What is pillowbere the alternative form of?
Pillowbere is the alternative form of pillowbeer.

Words near pillowbere in the dictionary

  1. pillow-case
  2. pillow-cases
  3. pillow-top
  4. pillowbeer
  5. pillowbeers
  6. pillowbere
  7. pillowberes
  8. pillowbier
  9. pillowbiers
  10. pillowbiter
  11. pillowbiters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pillowbere (page history and authors); pillowbeer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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