EIDERDOWN


Meaning of EIDERDOWN in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And yet his wool suit scrapes through the layer of eiderdown .

Carefully she drew it out through the folds of the eiderdown and held it close to the flame of the nightlight.

Dot was in a wide high bed with white sheets, two pillows, two blankets and an eiderdown .

For night travelling, brass bedsteads with handsome eiderdown quilts were provided.

Or him who said he heard the horn, moaning softly like an alarm clock under an eiderdown ?

She stumbled to her feet, clutching the eiderdown around her, and opened her mouth to call to them.

Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed.

We had some hot weather, but with an eiderdown of cloud under the sun.

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