swansdown
See also: swan's-down and swan's down
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swansdown (usually uncountable, plural swansdowns)
- The down of a swan.
- 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, pages 266–267:
- Oh, to be free of Princes' at one-thirty, of being the tiny kitten in the swansdown basket, of being the Arabian, and the grave, delighted child and the little wild creature. . . .
- A soft woolen fabric; flannelette.
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