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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eiderdown
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 pillows, two blankets and an eiderdown.
▪ For night travelling, brass bedsteads with handsome eiderdown quilts were provided.
▪ Or him who said he heard the horn, moaning softly like an alarm clock under an eiderdown?
▪ She stumbled to her feet, clutching the eiderdown around her, and opened her mouth to call to them.
▪ Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed.
▪ We had some hot weather, but with an eiderdown of cloud under the sun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eiderdown

"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
eiderdown

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 and quilts. 2 (context countable English) A quilt stuffed with this down.

WordNet
eiderdown

  1. n. a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider [syn: duvet, continental quilt]

  2. down of the eider duck

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Eiderdown

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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.