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- noun
Down (soft, fluffy immature feathers used in bedding).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Seeds with parachutes, helicopter propellers or featherdown attachments can be carried miles away from the parent plant on currents of air.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Seeds with parachutes, helicopter propellers or featherdown attachments can be carried miles away from the parent plant on currents of air.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Seeds with parachutes, helicopter propellers or featherdown attachments can be carried miles away from the parent plant on currents of air.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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“No drugs,” says Veronique, a Raelian organiser with a French lisp in a gauzy white gown decorated with a wisp of featherdown to signify her status as an “Angel”, “and zat includes tea and coffee.”
It’s the Rael thing 2003
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New for this year: Higher Lank, a working Somerset farm spread over three valleys. 01420 80804; featherdown farm. co.uk
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