The word "eiderdown" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a type of soft down feather used to make quilts, comforters, and pillows. For example: "My bed is so comfortable, thanks to the eiderdown quilt."
Nobody in his right mind would these days prefer a handful of crumpled roubles to a teapot, eiderdown or even a gravestone.
When we sleep with eiderdown pillows and duvets, we are using feathers in their original guise: for heat insulation.
And is the barely lovable rogue about to give up those "late nights in the office" for smoochie-smoochies on the eiderdown?
Eiderdown is used as warm filling for jackets, pillows, quilts, and sleeping bags.
The room is crowded and snug, with an armchair covered in pink silk, a pink silk eiderdown, fringed lampshades.
He is obviously "a disguised gentleman," Tolstoy writes, perhaps presciently, since this was the kind of costume that Tolstoy himself wore in fierce, bearded later life, looking for all the world like a landowning Moses wrapped in an eiderdown.
His white-satin eiderdown-stuffed jacket was designed to be worn over an opera gown.
The buzzword of this Paris fashion week is sensuality, and the fabrics are lifted from the bedroom: pyjama-silk evening separates at Stella McCartney, camisole satins and pale eiderdown-quilt coats at Céline, soft, fringed blanket scarves at Hermès.
In 1937, the designer Charles James showed a prophetic eiderdown-filled quilted evening jacket in white satin, now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
In Mr. Lennon's room, pictures of Elvis Presley and Brigitte Bardot are tacked to the walls, 45's by Lonnie Donegan and Little Richard are strewn around the sill behind an eiderdown-covered bed, and books by his favorite childhood author, Lewis Carroll, sit open on a desk.
Second, some Russians get paid in whatever their factories produce teapots, eiderdowns, even gravestones rather than in cash.
