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eiderdown
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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 ...
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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.