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Noun
swansdown (usually uncountable, plural swansdowns)
- The down of a swan.
1920, Katherine Mansfield , “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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