Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An erroneous form of
pin-feathered .
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Examples
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When Birds, scarce pen-feathered, were brought to a rout,
The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball Catherine Ann Turner Dorset
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His antient beginning was a blue coat, since a livery, and his hatching under a lawyer; whence, though but pen-feathered, he hath now nested for himself, and with his boarded pence purchased an office.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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The facts forbid that your pen-feathered saint should decamp with some of my costly travel-scrapings!
St. Elmo 1872
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The fates forbid that your pen-feathered saint should decamp with some of my costly travel-scrapings!
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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