padding vs throw pillow

padding

noun
  • Soft filling material used in cushions etc. 

  • Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length. 

  • Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length. 

  • Anything of little value used to fill up space. 

throw pillow

noun
  • A small pillow, especially one placed on a chair or sofa rather than on a bed, used for decoration rather than comfort. 

How often have the words padding and throw pillow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )