0 a thick covering for the top of a bed, filled with soft feathers or warm material: --
She snuggled beneath the eiderdown.
Many islands are used for summer residences and natural resources such as eiderdown harvesting is the main source of income for many farmers.
The eider's nest is built close to the sea and is lined with the celebrated eiderdown, plucked from the female's breast.
Hunters used to collect eiderdown at the islands.
They have joined the eiderdown gang.
If he turns on the other side, the eiderdown may fall off the bed altogether.
The solution of expenditure of money is rather like an inadequate eiderdown on a winter's evening; when you cover your shoulders, you uncover your toes.
If the "eiderdown brigade" is not here, one or two others will be present to develop the argument.
The crews collected eggs and gathered eiderdown.