eiderdown

Example Sentences

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In this sleepy but optimistic spirit, she climbed into the high, wide bed, slipped between sheets of pure satin, and laid her head on a pillow stuffed with eiderdown.

From Literature

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

From BBC

Alma’s poltergeist not only twiddled necklaces but sprang them from shop counters; it whipped saucers across rooms, upended eiderdowns, spun rings on to fingers.

From The Guardian

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

From Washington Post

Woven through are moving stories of the remote microeconomies engaged in these trades, such as Iceland’s eiderdown gatherers who, year on year, give safe haven to thousands of wild eider ducks in nesting season.

From Nature