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Meanings of eiderdown in English

Portuguese
edredom
Spanish
edredón

A soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider.

edredom
Synonyms
Examples for "duvet"
Examples for "duvet"
1
Do you know how long it takes to change a duvet cover?
NY Magazine
2
Although we still do need a duvet day every now and then.
Independent.ie
3
She pulled the duvet around her and thought for a long time.
The girl who played with fire
4
He pulled the duvet down her body, an inch at a time.
The lost recipe for happiness
5
Just before you climb under your duvet, you carefully prepare your room.
BBC
Usage of eiderdown in English
1
Her lips trembled and her knees were shaking beneath the eiderdown quilt.
The Voice of the People
2
Duncan toweled himself off with a fluffy rectangle woven from Elaccan eiderdown.
Paul of dune
3
Rose closed her eyes and pulled her eiderdown up over her stomach.
East of the sun
4
The eiderdown is easily collected, as the birds are quite tame.
Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
5
Hals wrapped himself in a Soviet eiderdown and rushed out into the cold.
The forgotten soldier
6
To hold the eiderdown on a bed tie a brick at each corner.
Outliers: the story of success
7
She looks at the pattern of the window on her eiderdown.
The crimson petal and the white
8
I complained of the cold, and so got under the eiderdown.
The great lover
9
She had an eiderdown quilt wrapped around her over her dressing-gown.
Two Little Knights of Kentucky
10
Shouldn't know what to do with a silk eiderdown if I had one.
A Man and His Money
11
Against the rose pink of the eiderdown, his sandy hair is all aglow.
The gathering
12
His pillow, however, was eiderdown, and he always kept a clean case on it.
Winter’s Tale
13
Another new departure is the decision to carry eiderdown sleeping-bags inside the reindeer ones.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
14
And she closed her eyes and drew the eiderdown quilt close about her shoulders.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
15
A number of papers lay strewn about the eiderdown quilt.
Okewood of the Secret Service
16
The bed wore a coloured rug, bare and thin, an eiderdown, damp and musty.
The Happy Foreigner
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Translations for eiderdown
Portuguese
edredom
Spanish
edredón
Eiderdown through the time
Eiderdown across language varieties
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