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Squab   Listen
noun
Squab  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A nestling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
2.
A person of a short, fat figure. "Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan."
3.
A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa. "Punching the squab of chairs and sofas." "On her large squab you find her spread."





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"Squab" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a little strained voice that it was with something like astonishment I looked upon the speaker. Whence he had issued I could not guess; but there he stood behind us, nodding and smiling—a squab, thick-set old fellow with a great bald head, and, for all the hair on his face, a tuft like a teasel sprouting from his ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes
... provided with a wire-spring mattress, a squab of vegetable fibre and a sufficient number of blankets. All the bedding is ...
— Turkish Prisoners in Egypt - A Report By The Delegates Of The International Committee - Of The Red Cross • Various


Words linked to "Squab" :   domestic pigeon, dove, short, sofa, squabby, pigeon, sea squab


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