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(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.
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.
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 red rep.
She jerked up in bed, clutching the eiderdown; her heart beat. What could it be?
Use eider down when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Eider down means (uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts..
Common synonyms include duvet, continental quilt.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A great sea lifted us high and, crashing down with a deafening roar, carried us swiftly along on light foam as soft as eiderdown.
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