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eiderdown

eiderdown noun: the down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.

Noun

eiderdown (countable and uncountable, plural eiderdowns)

  1. (uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.
    • A great sea lifted us high and, crashing down with a deafening roar, carried us swiftly along on light foam as soft as eiderdown.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 80
  2. (countable) A quilt stuffed with this down.
    • The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven’s sake to quit—the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • I entered. It was a very small room, overcrowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with...1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 11”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

eiderdown meaning in Tamil

eiderdown in Tamil

வாத்து இறகுகள்

Examples of eiderdown in a sentence

  • There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 11”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
  • She jerked up in bed, clutching the eiderdown; her heart beat.1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company...

Forms of eiderdown

pluraleiderdowns
alternative formeider down

Origin of eiderdown

From eider + down.

Questions about eiderdown

What does eiderdown mean?
Eiderdown means the down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.
What is eiderdown in Tamil?
Eiderdown in Tamil is வாத்து இறகுகள். See Eiderdown meaning in Tamil.
How do you use eiderdown in a sentence?
There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.
What part of speech is eiderdown?
Eiderdown is a noun.
What is the plural of eiderdown?
The plural of eiderdown is eiderdowns.

Words near eiderdown in the dictionary

  1. eider
  2. eider down
  3. eider duck
  4. eider geese
  5. eider goose
  6. eiderdown
  7. eiderdowns
  8. eiderduck
  9. eiderducks
  10. eiders
  11. eidetic

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