eiderdown

Example Sentences

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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

It’s like bacon as a cloud, bacon as an eiderdown feather, bacon as a dandelion puff.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2016

Half the stuffing has come out and it smells like a root cellar full of damp; but still, an eiderdown—a silk eiderdown!

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein