cushion: [14] Ultimately, cushion and quilt are the same word. Both come from Latin culcita ‘mattress, cushion’, which is related to Sanskrit kūrcás ‘bundle’, and both reached English via rather circuitous routes. In Gallo-Roman (the descendant of Latin spoken in France from the 5th to the 9th centuries) culcita underwent a transformation which produced Old French coissin and cussin, which Middle English borrowed as quisshon and cushin.
The complexity of forms spawned by these was quite staggering – the OED records nearly seventy spellings of the word – but by the 17th century things had settled down, with cushion emerging the winner. Cushy [20], incidentally, is quite unrelated, being a borrowing from Hindi khūsh ‘pleasant’. => quilt
cushion (n.)
c. 1300, from Old French coissin "seat cushion" (12c., Modern French coussin), probably a variant of Vulgar Latin *coxinum, from Latin coxa "hip, thigh," or from Latin culcita "mattress." Someone has counted more than 400 spellings of the plural of this word in Middle English wills and inventories. Also from the French word are Italian cuscino, Spanish cojin.
cushion (v.)
1730s, from cushion (n.). In the figurative sense, from 1863. Related: Cushioned; cushioning.
例文
1. Lie face upwards with a cushion under your head.
ヘッドレストマット仰向けに寝る。
2.The subsidies are designed to cushion farmers against unpre-dictable weather.
これらの補助金は、予測しにくい悪天候による農家の被害を軽減するために使用されます。
3.He sat on a tapestry cushion next to the hearth.
暖炉の端にある刺繍入りのクッションに座っている。
4.Use a small cushion to help give support to the lower back.