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/Sounds like "eh" (as in "egg") + "dreh" (as in "dress") + "DOHN" (as in "door")/

Meaning

A thick, fluffy duvet or comforter filled with feathers or synthetic fiber. The cozy cloud you wrap yourself in on cold nights and absolutely refuse to leave when the alarm goes off. Standard vocabulary across Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, and Mexico.

Examples

As soon as the cold arrived I pulled out the thickest duvet from the closet.

A down duvet is expensive, but once you try it there is really no going back.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Colombia
Bandera de Ecuador
Bandera de México
Bandera de Venezuela
Cobija
Bandera de Argentina
Bandera de Chile
Bandera de Ecuador
Bandera de Perú
Bandera de Uruguay
Frazada

To move on from something in the past and keep going without holding a grudge. The emotional equivalent of closing a chapter: you acknowledge what happened and then deliberately leave it behind. Common across Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile.