Definition of "swansdown" []

• The down of a swan (noun)
• A soft woolen fabric; flannelette (noun)

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• "Fascinating apparitions flitted through his dreams; head-dresses laden with flowers, snowy shoulders enveloped in swansdown capes, supple forms imprisoned in muslin or satin: such alluring phantoms fluttered their gauze wings before Raymon's heavy, burning eyes; but he had seen these peris only in the perfumed whirl of the ballroom."
• "A twill made by running both warp and filling under one and over three threads is called a swansdown twill and the reverse is known as the crow weave."
• "A robe of amaranthus figured sarsnet, made to sit high in the neck, with a full cuff of lace; long sleeves with short loose tops trimmed with swansdown."