eiderdown

Example Sentences

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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

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