Plumage

Definitions

1. Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.
   collective, countable, noun, uncountable
2. Finery or elaborate dress.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In some few cases the young in their first plumage differ⟳ from each other according to sex; the young males resembling more or less closely the adult males, and the young females more or less closely the adult females.”

“Somewhat like⟳ a heron she was, but stouter, and shorter of leg, and her beak shorter and thicker than the heron’s; and so long and delicate was her pale gray plumage that hard it was to say⟳ whether it were hair or feathers.”

“[Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter⟳ into it. It's stone dead.”

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