befeather

Definitions

To deck or cover with feathers.

transitive

Examples

“The men were not ill made, but they disfigured themselves with grease and coarse paint⟳; they were of a dark copper-colour, with lank black hair, which they tied in a knot behind; but they so bepowdered, or rather befeathered it with down, that the colour was hardly discernible […]”

“In fact, Grace found it very difficult to find⟳ a milliner who, if left to her own⟳ devices, would not befeather and beflower her past all self-recognition, giving to her that generally betousled and fly-away air which comes straight from the demi-monde of Paris.”

“They were making a human fetish doll out of clay, painting and befeathering it, offering yuca to it.”

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