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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 finger the thick toweled robes, read the labels on the amenities, pat the eiderdown quilts, inspect the well-stocked refrigerator, and step into the huge, empty, gleaming bathtub.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins




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