feathery

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  1. adjective Covered with or consisting of feathers.
  2. adjective Resembling or suggestive of a feather, as in form or lightness.

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  • Dollar for Dollar, many Côtes du Rhône labels offer matchless depth for their feathery price tags. —  miami.com -
  • So if you want to support the organisation and also get your furry / feathery / scaly friend a degree of vicarious fame this is your big chance. —  The RiotACT
  • Farnadi often achieves a restrained or sustained violence, quite as aggressive as she can be feathery, a glistening cat. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • I slowly determined that I was freaked out about it because it wasn't feathery, scaly or furry and seemed so utterly alien to me - black carapace and eight legs (and spider energy, while great during the time I worked with it, still occasionally creeped me out). —  Witchvox - RSS Feed - New Articles This Week
  • For a feathery backdrop of pale gray plumes, plant Japanese silver grass behind asters. —  Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
 

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/ˈfɛðəri/
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