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eiderdown

[ahy-der-doun] / ˈaɪ dərˌdaʊn /


NOUN
fluff
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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

I pulled the eiderdown over my head, sobbing at his feet.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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