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Definition of Goose down
1. Noun. Down of the goose.
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Literary usage of Goose down
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1. Theory and Practice of Teaching by Edward Thring (1894)
"Run the goose down. THE questions hitherto discussed have belonged pretty equally
to teacher and taught; and pertain to the outward form and manner of ..."
2. Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851: Delivered Before by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1852)
"... together with articles made of goose-down. In the Indian department were shown
white and black ostrich plumes; but these had been imported from Aden. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"The LIVE-AND-LET-LIVE is of the best and noblest mate ials—the wool interwoven
wiih goose down; the Geese treated upon the most liberal principle» ..."
4. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas William Jerrold (1853)
"Goose-down, is there ? Then I'm hanged if they didn't stuff it with the geese
before plucking 'em. ..."
5. Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest by Don Young, Marjorie Young (1999)
"Or how goose down pillows are made? Tulelake has both a horseradish factory (Tulelake
Horseradish Co., Box 636, 619 Main St., Tulelake, CA 96134, ..."
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