eiderdown
Example Sentences
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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
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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