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What does eiderdown mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.
  2. (countable) A quilt stuffed with this down.
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A couple of fancy shirts, several pair of dress trousers, and other garments were neatly spread out on the eiderdown coverlet.
The Common Eider is faring well in Iceland, where eiderdown has been harvested for nine centuries.
They went upstairs, undressed and climbed between the cool sheets covered with the heavy eiderdown.
It was always such a relief to get back to Auntie Lizzie's so we could use her eiderdown quilts to slide down the stairs.
The father of the house where Teddy is staying at the outbreak of war throws a white eiderdown out of a window in a rage.
I shivered in the folds of the eiderdown wrapped around my shoulders and drew it tighter, trying to foil an errant draught.

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