swan's down

1. 1.

   soft woolen fabric used especially for baby clothes

   Broaderfabric
2. 2.

   down of the swan

   Broaderdown

   Part ofswan

Questions about swan's down

What does swan's down mean?

swan's down means "soft woolen fabric used especially for baby clothes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is swan's down a common word?

swan's down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.