pillowcase

Everyday

1. A pillowcase is a cloth cover that goes over a pillow to keep it clean. tree →
2. It can be taken off and washed. tree →

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 →
• My pillowcase has dinosaurs on it. tree →
• We wash the pillowcases every week. tree →
• On Halloween he carried his candy in a pillowcase. tree →
• At the party we had a pillowcase race, hopping inside them. tree →
• The pillowcase was wet from my tears after the sad film. tree →
• The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuce, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully. tree →

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.