swan-down

[FN#402] So amongst the Romans we have the Iatroliptæ, youths or girls who wiped the gymnast's perspiring body with swan-down, a practice renewed by the professors of "Massage"; Unctores who applied perfumes and essences; Fricatrices and Tractatrices or shampooers; Dropacistæ, corn-cutters; Alipilarii who plucked the hair, etc., etc., etc.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Jeekewis, also with blackened face, his head covered with stray feathers and tufts of swan-down.

The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends Cornelius Mathews 1853

Its fur, soft and white like swan-down, was stained with red blood.

The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

Its fur, soft and white like swan-down, was stained with red blood.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

The bow and quiver are suspended across their shoulders by bands of swan-down three inches broad, while their long lance, richly carved, and with a bright copper or iron point, is carried horizontally at the side of the horse.

Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820

The bow and quiver are suspended across their shoulders by bands of swan-down three inches broad, while their long lance, richly carved, and with a bright copper or iron point, is carried horizontally at the side of the horse.

Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet Frederick Marryat 1820

There he is, stripped to the buff -- playing at hide-and-seek, hare-and-hound, with a queer crazy crony of his in a fur cap, swan-down waistcoat, and hairy breeches, Lodbrog or Winter.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

And I stuffed an arm-chair with horse-hair on purpose, feathers over it, swan-down over them again, and covered it with scarlet cloth of Bruges, five crowns the short ell.

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819

Colonel Heathcock, who, dressed in black, had stretched his 'fashionable length of limb' under the statira canopy upon the snow-white swan-down couch.

The Absentee Maria Edgeworth 1808

I’ve had a whip round the blog with the turbovac and fluffed the swan-down cushions on the chaise, so you’re always welcome.

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