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Feather quilt
Answer for the clue "Feather quilt ", 9 letters:
eiderdown
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Word definitions for eiderdown in dictionaries
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 .
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 ...
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.