Well, I told you guys that It was weird but possible haha 
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Is what deterred me from guessing pillow because it’s fairly common to have decorative pillows on a couch or an armchair in your living room, wouldn’t be at all strange to find them outside the bedroom.
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@Fraggles That’s my bad. In my native language those kind of big pillows have a different name than the small ones that you use to sleep, that’s why my confusion. But I should’ve thought better before saying that. I was trying to help and I ended up confusing you guys more 
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Congrats @Pylinaer you won the raffle!!!
Now we have to wait for @SeekerSupreme to claim our prizes and for the next round to start.
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@FacuBlues, I do not approve of this nasty image. Them shoes are awful.
Send me your picks, Pylinaer is waiting;)
These are called cushions.
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Is that a corset or body armor?
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It’s tooshort.
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That is an American/British language divergence they are very much called pillows in many places. For example:
What that bloke is wearing however I agree is a cushion, that’s an insert to your sofa which you’re meant to be sitting on.
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There are bigger throw pillows of that size though, I think. But mostly the throw pillows are smaller, and not used for sleep. But you are right about different language/word choices.
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Places - yes (my home country for example), English - no.
The Target site further exemplifies this. A throw pillow ≠ pillow, same way as a pocket knife ≠ knife.
See Cambridge/Collins/McMillan/Merriam-Webster dictionaries for refference.
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My world has been turned upside down. Never once before have I not considered a pocket knife a knife.
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A pocket knife is a knife, a pocket knife ≠ knife.
pocket knive(s) ⊂ knive(s)
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euh
etc.
maybe i dont get what yr saying @SeekerSupreme ?
well, it shouldn’t because it clearly is a knife
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I understand what you mean. But man, it’s been a long time since I looked at any of those symbols.
Unfortunately I don’t think in sets any more, not since college math days. (final college math class I took was 2007)
The only set I deal with now is this:
Fantastic game for anyone not familiar with it. 
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Natural language semantics aren’t always as clear-cut as those of mathematics, but - as long as they follow the same principles of logic - I don’t see a reason to deviate from them.
Though everyone’s free to follow their own;)
@M00 pocket knife is a subset of knife (a proper subset, to be exact), as demonstrated by those entries you’ve provided.
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kk, now i get what you’re saying, my bad
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Obviously the word “throw pillow” is not the same thing as the word “pillow”, doesn’t matter how obtusely you make your claim it does not change the fact that throw pillows are a type of pillow and that they are routinely called pillows by a large subset of the English speaking world.
My claim was merely that it would not be considered weird by a significantly large portion of the world to find something they would call a pillow outside the bedroom.
You’ll find that at least merriam and Oxford covers my point as well.
These should serve to strengthen the point that the word “pillow” does not exclusively mean the stuffed item upon which one rests their head on in a bed.
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Every point you’ve made is true.
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