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eiderdown

[ahy-der-daun] / 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

Ms. Hall, tall, lithe and bubbling with that outsize Texan charm, swanned about the museum, wearing another Charles James dress, under a glamorous white eiderdown jacket from 1938.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2014

Clearly, from her look, there were not many things in the world she disliked more than a couch, a good eiderdown couch, that had been made up for sleeping purposes.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger


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