eiderdown

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sleeping-bag insulated with eiderdown, or similar stuffing

Quotations

1924

Beans and bacon were frying on the stove, and my eiderdown was unrolled on the tent's snow floor and spread over robes of deerskin.

1956

We cooked supper and fed the dogs, but when I went to fetch my eiderdown from the sleigh I could find no bedding belonging to Kitimakis.