Last week I learned a couple of new words while reading an Advanced Reader's Edition of The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy:
Kestrel: a common small falcon.
Here is how kestrel was used on page 88:
I think of his face, which has the sharpness of a kestrel, his gaze, which looks right into you, and his twisted body, the way he drags his right foot.
Eiderdown: a thick warm cover for a bed, made of two layers of material enclosing a soft filling.
Here is how eiderdown was used on page 267:
I fetch her eiderdown and make her a bed on the sofa, with her Buckingham Palace jigsaw on a tray.
Well that is it for my new words this week. I have heard of goosedown but eiderdown was a new one to me!
2 comments:
I've heard of eiderdown, but kestrel is new to me. I tried to guess the meaning from the sentence, but I was way off. Thanks for playing along.
I came across kestrel this summer and eiderdown sounds pretty much the same in Swedish so guessed it :)
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