eiderdown betydelse and definition

Exempel på eiderdown

• A duvet is more practical than sheets, blankets and eiderdown, although the patient may prefer them if they are what he is used to.

• The crews collected eggs and gathered eiderdown.

• If the "eiderdown brigade" is not here, one or two others will be present to develop the argument.

• 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 he turns on the other side, the eiderdown may fall off the bed altogether.

• They have joined the eiderdown gang.

• Hunters used to collect eiderdown at the islands.

• The eider's nest is built close to the sea and is lined with the celebrated eiderdown, plucked from the female's breast.