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bolster
O.E.
bolster
"something stuffed so that it swells up," especially "long, stuffed pillow," from P.Gmc.
*bolkhstraz,
from PIE
*bhelgh-
"to swell" (see
belly
). The verb in fig. sense is from 1508, on the notion of "to support with a bolster, prop up."
