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eider-down
ˈeider-down Also eiderdown. [ultimately a. Icel. æðar-d{uacu}n: see eider and down n.2; the Icel. word has been adopted as Sw. ejder-dun, Da. eder-duun, Ger. eiderdon, Fr. édredon.] 1. The small soft feathers from the breast of the eider duck. Also attrib.1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 125 In th... Oxford English Dictionary
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otter-down
otter-down erroneous for eider-down (an unfamiliar word at the time).1759 Johnson Idler No. 40 ¶4 Now to be sold, for ready money only, some duvets for bed-coverings, of down, beyond comparison superior to what is called otter-down. Oxford English Dictionary
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Black Unstoppable
says "Few flutists can summon the variety of tones, textures, emotional realms and degrees of light from the instrument that Mitchell can: alternately eider-down wikipedia.org
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eider
eider, n. (ˈaɪdə(r)) Also 8–9 edder. [Ultimately a. Icel. æðar (aiðar), genit. of æð-r eider-duck, in the comb. æðar-d{uacu}n eider-down. The continental forms, Sw. † eider, now ejder (-gås), Da. eder(-fugl), Ger. eider(-ente), are similarly adopted from. Icel. The present Eng. spelling is probably ... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Princess and the Pea
She decides to test their unexpected guest by placing a pea in the bed she is offered for the night, covered by twenty mattresses and twenty eider-down wikipedia.org
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épigramme
‖ épigramme Cookery. (epigram) [Fr.; app. a fanciful use of épigramme = epigram.] A name given to small cutlets of mutton, veal, etc. dressed in a particular manner.1736 Bailey, Epigramme. 1825 T. Lister Granby vii. (1836) 40 The very eider-down of eatables! Oh, it was quite like eating air! And the... Oxford English Dictionary
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duvet
‖ duvet (dyvɛ) [F. duvet down, earlier dumet, dim. of OF. dum down.] 1. A quilt stuffed with eider-down or swan's-down.1758 Johnson Idler No. 40 ¶4 There are now to be sold..some duvets for bed-coverings. 1880 M. V. G. Havergal Mem. F. R. Havergal xv. 299 Her pet kittens on her duvet. 1967 R. Petrie... Oxford English Dictionary
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E
E (iː) the fifth letter of the Roman alphabet, represents historically the Semitic 𐤄, which originally expressed a sound resembling that of h, but was adopted by the Greeks (and from them by the Romans) as a vowel, the pronunc. of which probably varied from the ‘mid-front’ (e) to the ‘low front’ (ɛ... Oxford English Dictionary
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down
▪ I. † down, n.1 (daʊn) Forms: 1 d{uacu}n, 2–4 dun, 4–5 doun(e, 4–7 downe, 4– down. [OE. d{uacu}n fem., hill = ODu. d{uacu}na (MDu. d{uacu}ne, Du. duin, whence mod.LG. düne sandhill, F. dune). Supposed to be of Celtic origin: cf. OIr. d{uacu}n hill, hill-fort, Welsh din, and place-names in -dūnum. S... Oxford English Dictionary
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