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Bolsterer

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bol·ster  (blstr)
n.
A long narrow pillow or cushion.
tr.v. bol·stered, bol·ster·ing, bol·sters
1. To support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion.
2. To buoy up or hearten: Visitors bolstered the patient's morale.

[Middle English, from Old English; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots.]

bolster·er n.


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She and co-star Lolita Davidovich turned into each other's greatest advisers and bolsterers during the shoot, she said.
 
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