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FromMiddle Englishquysshyn, from laterOld Frenchcoissin (moderncoussin), fromVulgar Latin*coxīnus(“seat pad”), derived fromLatincoxa(“hip, thigh”) (with the suffix possibly after Latinpulvīnus(“pillow”)), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*koḱs-(“joint, limb”).

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Noun

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cushion (countable anduncountable,pluralcushions)

A stripedcushion on a bed
  2. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
    • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e.,Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, inThe Case of Miss Elliott, London:T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published1905,→OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909,OCLC11192831, quoted inThe Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
      “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which[…] was subsequently found under thecushions of the hansom. […]”
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red clothcushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
    1. (Commonwealth) Athrow pillow.
    2. A thin, flat pad used on hardchairs and sometimestoilet seats.
  3. Something acting as a cushion, especially toabsorb ashock orimpact.
    1. A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
    2. A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
    4. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Thelip around a table incue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
    5. Thepillow used in makingbone lace.
    6. Anengraver'spad.
    7. (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
    8. (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
  4. (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
    • 2011 November 3, Arindam Rej, “Fulham 4-1 Wisla Krakow”, inBBC Sport:
      Wisla made a bright start to the second half and Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer was twice called into action, first saving Gervasio Nunez's deflected 20-yard effort and then smothering Gargula's free-kick.
      But Fulham soon had thecushion of a third goal after more outstanding build-up play.
    • 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      It will most likely not alter the destination of the league title, which still seems bound for City, who retain an 11-pointcushion at the top
    1. (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
      • 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, Valerie Miller, “Skepticism, Steel Mills And Everyday Stories”, inGay Community News, volume17, number29, page 8:
        The entry-level wages are abominable, still something like $15,000 a year. You can't possibly be a working class person and live on that in New York City. You need some kind of family "cushion." So what you'll find in publishing is middle class professionals, people who see material about working class people as "foreign."
      • 2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers,Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced, page826:
        Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how muchcushion a company has in making its interest payments.
      • 2013, Stijn Claessens, Kirsten Forbes,International Financial Contagion, page85:
        If one of the banks has a significant enoughcushion of capital and a strong enough balance sheet, then it would not experience a bank run, and the domino effect in panel A would not have occurred.
  5. (historical) The dancer in thecushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
    • 1668, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by John Wilson, edited by Helen Mary Allen,The Praise of Folly, published1913, page35:
      But of these kind of second Courses I am the onely Cook; though yet those ordinary practises of our Feasts, as choosing a King, throwing Dice, drinking Healths, trouling it Round, dancing theCushion and the like, were not invented by the seven Wise Men but my Self, and that too for the common pleasure of Mankind.
    • 1836, George Dubourg,The Violin, page21:
      The young man advances to the fiddler, drops a penny in the pot, and gives it to one of his companions.Cushion then dances round the room, followed by the pot, and when they again reach the fiddler, thecushion says, in a sort of recitative, accompanied by the music, 'This dance it will no farther go.'
    • 1877, John Brand, Henry Ellis,Observations on Popular Antiquities, page394:
      In reference to a nuptial feast, the cushion dance at weddings is thus mentioned in the Apophthegms of King James, the Earl of Worcester and others (1658): “At last when the Masque was ended and Time had brought in the Supper,theCushion led the Dance out of the Parlour into the Hall;”

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Translations

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soft material in cloth bag
absorbent or protective item
in cue sports
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Verb

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cushion (third-person singular simple presentcushions,present participlecushioning,simple past and past participlecushioned)

  1. Tofurnish with cushions.
    Synonyms:nestle,pad
    tocushion a sofa
  2. Toseat orplace on, or as on a cushion.
    • 1734,Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke,A Dissertation on Parties:
      How many doughty monarchs, in later and more polite ages, would have slept in cottages, and have worked in falls, instead of inhabiting palaces, and beingcushioned up in thrones, if this rule of government had continued in force ?
  3. (figurative) Toabsorb ordeaden the impact of.
    • 1903, Edward Porritt, “Poynings' Law”, inThe Unreformed House of Commons, volume II,page429:
      […]the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin tocushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant[…]
    • 2024 July 27, Hannah Ewens, “‘Do you mind listening to that with headphones?’ How one little phrase revolutionised my commute”, inThe Guardian‎[2],→ISSN:
      And then I’d strip the message back to a basic sentence, notcushion it with an apology (an apology – fromme!) or explain why I wanted the antisocial behaviour to stop.
  4. (figurative) Toconceal orcover up, as under a cushion.

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Translations

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provide cushion
absorb impact
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