ppl. a. [f. CUSHION sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Furnished or fitted with a cushion or cushions.
1839. J. L. Stephens, Trav. Greece, etc. 65/1. I had a large cushioned seat of the diligence to myself.
1877. W. Thomson, Voy. Challenger, I. i. 21. The top of the locker is cushioned, and serves for a lounge.
b. transf.
1861. W. F. Collier, Hist. Eng. Lit., 400. Grass-cushioned crags of Sandy-Knowe.
1863. Possib. of Creation, 235. The cushioned, spreading feet [of the camel].
c. Padded. See CUSHION sb. 3 b.
1777. Colman, Epil. Sheridan’s Sch. Scandal. Farewell the plumèd head, the cushion’d tête.
1807–8. W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 32. Our ladies … When bishop’d, and cushion’d, and hoop’d to the chin.
d. Cycling. Furnished with cushion-tires.
1891. Wheeling, 11 March, 453. The best plan … is that … of making forks wide enough for either pneumatic or cushioned wheels.
2. Seated on, or propped up with cushions.
1818. Hazlitt, Eng. Poets, v. (1870), 116. The in-door quiet and cushioned ease.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 274. A languid life And cushioned soft recumbency.
3. Arch. Cushioned capital = cushion capital, (see CUSHION sb. 11.)
1754[?]. Gray, 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.
1832. Lindley, 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.
1770. J. Love, Cricket, 5. Or when the Ball, close cushion’d, slides askew, And to the op’ning Pocket runs, a Cou.
