Difference between stuffing and eiderdown
Definitions
noun
- padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
- a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
Examples
He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
The main course was going to be a roast duck, served with cranberry stuffing and scalloped potatoes.
I kept folding up the wads of twenties and stuffing them in the pocket of my shorts.
Definitions
noun
- a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider
- down of the eider duck
Examples
She put the photographs on the table, located the spare eiderdown, and draped it over him.
Precious pastrycooks declared it needed to rest on an eiderdown before it went in the oven, after which baking took place in an atmosphere of maternity.
The father of the house where Teddy is staying at the outbreak of war throws a white eiderdown out of a window in a rage.
