eiderdown

Example Sentences

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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

The director Nancy Meyers doesn’t just make movies, she makes the kind of lifestyle fantasies you sink into like eiderdown.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2015

Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete, and this she set down between John's cot and Barbara’s.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers