eiderdown
Americannoun
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down, or soft feathers, from the breast of the female eider duck.
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a heavy quilt or comforter, especially one filled with eiderdown.
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a warm, lightweight knitted or woven fabric of wool, cotton, or man-made fibers, napped on one or both sides, used for sleepwear, infants' clothing, etc.
noun
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the breast down of the female eider duck, with which it lines the nest, used for stuffing pillows, quilts, etc
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a thick warm cover for a bed, made of two layers of material enclosing a soft filling
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a warm cotton fabric having a woollen nap
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Harvey’s memoir of her 2016 insomnia is “like a small and well-worn eiderdown quilt,” our reviewer, Alexandra Jacobs, wrote.
From New York Times • May 21, 2021
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
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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