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- noun Plural form of
feather .
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Examples
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_Pin feathers_ are small unformed feathers that do not pull out with the larger ones.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
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The feathers of the African species, however, are far less beautiful and valuable than those from the tail of the adjutant; and it is these last that are really best known as _marabout feathers_, in consequence of the mistake made by
The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850
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The naked vulture neck with its pouch-like appendage of brick-red hue; the silken feathers of bluish white under the tail -- those precious plumes well-known and worn by the ladies of many lands under the appellation of _marabout feathers_ -- all were recognised at a glance.
The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850
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We've had no other fossils to tell us how the distinctive shape of penguin feathers, how the feathered flipper of living penguins evolved.
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We've had no other fossils to tell us how the distinctive shape of penguin feathers, how the feathered flipper of living penguins evolved.
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The fibers of the beard are made of the same stuff in feathers the shape is just different.
QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt. 2010
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The fibers of the beard are made of the same stuff in feathers the shape is just different.
QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt. 2010
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We've had no other fossils to tell us how the distinctive shape of penguin feathers, how the feathered flipper of living penguins evolved.
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This panel depicts the god Ehécatl (the Night Wind) dressed in feathers, his nose pointed like a bird's beak and with claws for feet.
Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009
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This panel depicts the god Ehécatl (the Night Wind) dressed in feathers, his nose pointed like a bird's beak and with claws for feet.
Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009
trivet commented on the word feathers
Upon closer inspection, the mysterious feathers in the pen can I inherited are actually some sort of pseudo-quill contraptions. Someone took apart a ballpoint pen, taped the ink/ballpoint part to the feather shaft, and then laboriously wrapped it all in white duct tape. I'm impressed.
June 19, 2008
minouchette commented on the word feathers
small talk
October 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word feathers
http://xkcd.com/1104/
September 18, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word feathers
CB, the cartoon is a bate - perhaps?
To beat: in the phrase to bate the wings, to flutter, fly.
In falconry, to beat the wings impatiently; flutter as preparing for flight, particularly at the sight of prey; flutter away.
To flutter; be eager or restless.
To flutter or fly down. Century Dictionary
a falconsaur? Bear-baiting was banned in 1835.
September 19, 2012