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eiderdown

[ahy-der-doun] / ˈaɪ dərˌdaʊn /


NOUN
fluff
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I pick it up and the flakes fall off like strands of eiderdown.

From Washington Post Oct. 31, 2019

How many homes have pressed sheets, or towels and robes as soft and white and warm as eiderdown?

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2018

It’s like bacon as a cloud, bacon as an eiderdown feather, bacon as a dandelion puff.

From Slate Feb. 5, 2016

Ms. Hall, tall, lithe and bubbling with that outsize Texan charm, swanned about the museum, wearing another Charles James dress, under a glamorous white eiderdown jacket from 1938.

From New York Times Apr. 23, 2014

Her head felt full of eiderdown, and there was a faint pain throbbing behind her eyes.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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