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eiderdown

[ahy-der-doun] / ˈaɪ dərˌdaʊn /


NOUN
fluff
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On social media we're confessing to curling up with the cat on the eiderdown, with laptop, phone and notebook to hand.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2021

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

Now, he saw in his flashlight beam, his mother slept under eiderdown quilts that were just beginning to yellow.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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