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# pillowcase

noun (a pillowcase, pillowcases)

«pillowcase» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A pillowcase is a cloth cover that goes over a pillow to keep it clean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#m1)
2. It can be taken off and washed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life a pillowcase is part of the bedding with sheets and a duvet; children help change it. In stories kids use pillowcases as bags for Halloween sweets or for games. Phrases: «change the pillowcase», «a clean pillowcase», «pillowcase race».

### Examples

- Put a clean pillowcase on your pillow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#x1)
- My pillowcase has dinosaurs on it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#x2)
- We wash the pillowcases every week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#x3)
- On Halloween he carried his candy in a pillowcase. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#x4)
- At the party we had a pillowcase race, hopping inside them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#x5)
- The pillowcase was wet from my tears after the sad film. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#x6)
- The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuce, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/#x7)

### Note

Countable: pillowcase, pillowcases; one word. Also called a «pillow slip» in some places. Never put a pillowcase or plastic bag over anyone's head: it can stop breathing.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pillowcase» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillowcase/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pillowcase» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pillowcase.html) on Mova free.