swansdown , auch: swan's-down

I was more than ever convinced that she wasn't made of swansdown.

Snow had begun to fall, small and light, floating like swansdown through the still air.

Even if each soul it had devoured was lighter than swansdown.

Hair fair and light as swansdown made an aureole about Horn's head.

Feathers weren't enough for Dad's nest, nothing less than swansdown would do.

A napkin puffed up, settled like swansdown on his thighs.

If only he could just lie there, go to sleep on the hard, trodden snow that felt like swansdown!

Kimberly Farkas wore a mask of ostrich feathers and swansdown.

He was best known for his opulent evening looks, and for his use of extravagant fabrics such as swansdown.

Her clothing had been delivered that morning, but she owned nothing like this filmy crimson confection trimmed with swansdown.

"None of your spring-mattresses and swansdown.

Also, on either side of the tent were beds, with satin sheets, warm blankets and pillows filled with swansdown.

Her own stand is dominated by a burst of swansdown in shades of pink ranging from cerise to baby blush.

She wore a pink nightdress with frills and a thing called a negligee over it with a border of swansdown.

Bedlinens rustled, and the mattress gave beneath them, embracing and supporting, soft with swansdown.

-- Merykara lay in the swaying, jolting litter, on cushions and a mattress stuffed with swansdown.

Thea wore her white summer dress and a blue sash, but Lily Fisher had a new pink silk, trimmed with white swansdown.

Then we turned west along the Shannon and delivered ourselves to Glin Castle, where we spent two nights wrapped in swansdown.

They'd have their breeches and leggin's lined with flannelette - lined with swansdown, they used to say - or fluffy calico.

Stiffer materials such as swansdown and cashmere were replacing silk, whilst flannel and stiffened cotton remained the more popular lines.

Belle Maman had gone to bed early and sat up, not in swansdown this time, but lemon chiffon ruffles and a cascade of lace.

He sailed through them as white and insouciant as swansdown but, thought Scott, his emotions for once must be a little irregular-have I touched some pulse?

I am like the man in Browning who mourned over the spots upon his 'speckled hide,' but rejoiced in the swansdown of his lady.

The Lord Mayor left me a cake of lavender-scented soap and at least half a dozen Forailean towels, soft as swansdown."

He was as light and buoyant as swansdown, prey to any breeze that might carry him away, might waft him up to that golden gleam.