pinfeather

• ““Long Live the Seersucker” was the headline, with a subhead that promised Mr. Ignatius was championing “a revival of cream-colored linen and balmy pinfeather.””

  The Wall Street Journal: Lighten Up: Rediscovering The Summer Suit

• “I've killed my share of Wisconsin turkeys and have never encountered a pinfeather.”

  Wait. Why was this duck taken to the hospital?

• “Not so much as a snowy pinfeather tickled their eyes.”

  Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

• “His keen teeth had not so much as ruffled its pinfeather plumage.”

  Further Adventures of Lad

• “Just to show how one of those pinfeather Passions may be shunted onto”

  Ade's Fables

• “But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather.”

  The Hills of Hingham

• “He not only withdraws all objections to the nuptials, but allows he'll make the pinfeather sport an 'Abby full partners in the Sunflower.”

  Wolfville Nights

• “Although Abby done threatens him with a gun-play to make him lead her to the altar that time her old paw creases him, an 'he begins to wax low-sperited about wedlock, still, the pinfeather party's enamoured of Abby an' wropped up in her.”

  Wolfville Nights

• “On the level! now, 'goes on Texas to Black Jack as he pulls him off to a corner an' whispers so the pinfeather party don't hear; 'on the level, Jack! ain't it my dooty -- me who saveys what he's ag'inst -- to go warn this victim ag'in matrimony in all its horrors?”

  Wolfville Nights

• “Texas hardens his heart an 'gives up any notion of the pinfeather person's rescoo.”

  Wolfville Nights

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