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love pillow en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A small decorative pillow, filled with sweet-smelling herbs or flowers, given as a token of love or as a love charm.
   • When the plants came up, she dried the leaves and sewed them into “love pillows.” 2014, Ann Arensberg, Incubus: A Novel:
   • To secure lasting, blissful love from a nascent romance, a love pillow can cast a powerful, binding spell. 2014, Cerridwen Greenleaf, The Witches' Love Spell Book: For Passion, Romance, and Desire, →ISBN:
   • My favorite is the white satin heart-shaped honeymoon love pillow of cloves, mint and rose potpourri. 1985, The Herb Quarterly - Issues 25-32, page 45:
2. A large, often inflatable, pillow, decorated with a life-sized picture of a sexy boy or girl, used for cuddling in bed.
   • Either way, you're basically a Japanese love pillow: a comforting, kind of weird way to fill a girl's bed, but not to be paraded around in public. 2010, Brenna Ehrlich, Andrea Bartz, Stuff Hipsters Hate: A Field Guide to the Passionate Opinions of the Indifferent, →ISBN:
   • They are the creators of the dakimakura (literally “hugging pillow”), an inflatable, life-sized love pillow with the image of a porn star or anime character embossed on it, with an optional hole for love making. 2010, Anthony Ferguson, The Sex Doll: A History, →ISBN, page 51:
   • Do you know I have a bar chart on my desk that correlates your self-esteem to the surplus value of an anime love pillow? 2016, Hypersphere, →ISBN, page 455:
3. (slang) A woman's breast.
   • They also tell the world that your big breasts are not sexy love-pillows, but rather functional tanks from which you nourish your young. 2006, Jennifer Johnston, The Myth of the Bonbons: Exposing the Life of a Full-time Mom, →ISBN:
   • And 5 out of 5 pairs of boobs because the women here were damn near ALL playboy status, except my love pillow. 2007, MoDMaN., Brock Spady, & Mitch Higgins, National Lampoon Van Wilder Guide to Graduating College in Eight Years or More, →ISBN:
   • But whipping off her top and showing us her love pillows for me crosses that all important line of innocence. 2013 September 10, “Helen Flanagan, put your love pillows away! Please!”, in Now Magazine:
   • A nice guy and he falls asleep on my love pillows. 2013, William J. Storey, Misty Fyord Is Missing, →ISBN:

Forms

Synonyms

Dutch wife (body-length pillow) · body pillow (body-length pillow) · dakimakura (body-length pillow)