Padding

['pædɪŋ]

(noun.) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort.

Editor: Nell--From WordNet

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pad

(n.) The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

(n.) The material with which anything is padded.

(n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

(n.) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

Typist: Shelby

The diamonds were sewed into her habit, and secreted in my Lord's padding and boots. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Mrs. Peniston was one of the episodical persons who form the padding of life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Life wants padding, said Mr. Vincy, unable to omit his portable theory. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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