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Cover, of one colour that is, turned blue
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eiderdown
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And yet his wool suit scrapes through the layer of eiderdown . ▪ Carefully she drew it out through the folds of the eiderdown and held it close to the flame of the nightlight. ▪ Dot was in a wide high bed with white sheets, two ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context uncountable English) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts. 2 (context countable English) A quilt stuffed with this down. n. 1 (context uncountable English) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"soft feathers of the eider-duck" (such as it uses to line its nest), 1774; see eider + down (n.1). Ultimately from Icelandic æðardun , via a Scandinavian source (compare Danish ederdunn ) or German Eiderdon .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eiderdown can refer to: The down feathers of the eider duck A kind of quilt ( duvet , comforter ), traditionally containing eider duck down
Usage examples of eiderdown.
In the same way, the Epeira puts the eiderdown quilting and the taffeta wrapper round a capsule that contains nothing.
Gordon Longford got up and pulled the eiderdown straight where he had been sitting on it.
B for bdellium, E for eiderdown, P for psychology, P for pneumonia, O for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of .
Upon a silken eiderdown lay stockings and bras, panties and babydoll nighties.
If truth be known, I am almost ready to creep away to Castle Lutez, to wrap myself in eiderdowns and quiet my roaring digestion with a diet of curds and gruel.
Miraculously, his plunge had been intercepted by an old-fashioned four-poster bed, so piled with eiderdowns and quilts that it had absorbed the impetus of the fall.