So a comforter is an eiderdown... big puffy thing filled with duck (eider) down...

Where did I get the impression that comforters were woolly scarves, unless it was from some book where the heroine wrapped her comforter tightly around her neck to keep out the snow? Wrap that thing around your neck and you'd never see the light of day!

I was quoting from a book which I've now put away, one of my City & Guilds textbooks, written by a formidable woman who appeared to have won the last two World Wars all by herself AND told that cheeky young thing Mr Churchill a thing or two.

LTS