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Definition of Eiderdowns
1. eiderdown [n] - See also: eiderdown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eiderdowns
Literary usage of Eiderdowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Hints on Playwriting by Agnes Platt (1920)
"The queen mother, however, had her doubts, and put her on a bed of twenty mattresses
and twenty eiderdowns, and underneath the twenty mattresses and twenty ..."
2. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States: Annotated for Statistical ...edited by Stephen Koplan, Deanna Tanner Okun edited by Stephen Koplan, Deanna Tanner Okun (2006)
"Other: 9404.90.85 Quilts, eiderdowns, comforters and similar kg articles J 12.8%
05 With outer shell of cotton (362) No. 22 With outer shell of man-made ..."
3. Chile of Today: Its Commerce, Its Production and Its Resources. National by Adolfo Ortúzar (1907)
"Total ____ 1385 Quilts, Bedspreads, eiderdowns Stuffed with Feathers. — Val., $18 ;
KN, 35%. ... 1926 Quilts, Spreads, eiderdowns Stuffed with Cotton. ..."
4. Cloudy Jewel by Grace (Livingston) Hill (1920)
"And then at the foot of each was plumped, in a puff of beauty, the bright satin
eiderdowns that Leslie had insisted upon. Rose-color for Julia Cloud's, ..."
5. Literary Chapters by Walter Lionel George (1918)
"... Switzerland was a fraud, that there were eiderdowns at the bottom of every
crevasse, and that he had himself climbed the Andes on his hands and knees. ..."
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