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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
befeather . - adjective
Feathered ; covered or augmented withfeathers .
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Examples
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While it could plausibly be either a linked story collection or a novel, it is neither fish nor fowl, but, rather, a lovingly befinned and befeathered chimera of both.
A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed The Huffington Post 2011
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The lead-up to Lent is celebrated in many cities, but no party is as extravagant, noisy and befeathered as Rio de Janeiro's.
When to Go 2012
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While it could plausibly be either a linked story collection or a novel, it is neither fish nor fowl, but, rather, a lovingly befinned and befeathered chimera of both.
A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed The Huffington Post 2011
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In spite of the indelible image of whooping, befeathered savages on horseback, most Indians in the Americas were footbound.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Aside from gown and turban, and spiky, pink, rather vaginal shoes, she wore no adornment, but she appeared as much a creature of Carnival-mysterious, alluring, fanciful-as any befeathered Sheba or she-bee in the multitudes.
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I gave the original to Tony and he reciprocated with this nifty drawing of Will Denison meeting a befeathered Bix.
Archive 2009-05-01 James Gurney 2009
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He had that befeathered, straw cowboy hat pulled low over his ears, the tip and tail of its rakishly cantilevered brim cranked beneath eye level, its Indian festival of secretly meaningful charms and amulets flopping insouciantly in the breeze.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He had that befeathered, straw cowboy hat pulled low over his ears, the tip and tail of its rakishly cantilevered brim cranked beneath eye level, its Indian festival of secretly meaningful charms and amulets flopping insouciantly in the breeze.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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President Obama, in such fantasies, is a dictator and, in one image circulated among the anti-tax, anti-health reform "tea parties," he is depicted as a befeathered African witch doctor with little tusks coming out of his nostrils.
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I gave the original to Tony and he reciprocated with this nifty drawing of Will Denison meeting a befeathered Bix.
Spiderwick Meets Dinotopia James Gurney 2009
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