Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "I wondered about retirement cover ", 9 letters:
eiderdown

Alternative clues for the word eiderdown

Word definitions for eiderdown in dictionaries

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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider [syn: duvet , continental quilt ] down of the eider duck

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.