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swandown

swandown is the alternative form of swansdown.

Meaning of swansdown

Noun

swansdown (usually uncountable, plural swansdowns)

  1. (usually) The down of a swan.
    • Oh, to be free of Princes' at one-thirty, of being the tiny kitten in the swansdown basket, of being the Arabian, and the grave, delighted child and the little wild creature. . . .1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, pages 266–267
  2. (usually) A soft woolen fabric; flannelette.

Forms of swandown

pluralswandowns

Questions about swandown

What is swandown the alternative form of?
Swandown is the alternative form of swansdown.

Words near swandown in the dictionary

  1. Swancotts
  2. Swander
  3. Swanders
  4. swandive
  5. swandives
  6. swandown
  7. swandowns
  8. swanee whistle
  9. swanee whistles
  10. Swanepoel
  11. swaness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swandown (page history and authors); swansdown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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