wing-quill

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noun In ornithology, one of the remiges or flight-feathers. See remex, and cuts under covert, n., 6, and wing, n., 1 .

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In the business of getting a new suit he has more trouble than a fine lady, for he has to shake off the old garments, while getting the new, bit by bit, here a feather and there a feather, today a new wing-quill; tomorrow a new plume on his dainty breast.

The California Birthday Book Various
A scarlet leather belt girt her slender waist, and a silver châtelaine jingled a gay tune at her side, and about her white slim throat was a band of scarlet velvet, and her wide-brimmed straw hat had a knot of purple and white clematis in it, and a broad, vivid, emerald-green wing-quill thrust under the knot.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897