feathered en · ADJ
Meanings
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Covered with feathers.
“Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”
1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 11:Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.
2024 October 31, Ari Daniel, “How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and yellows”, in NPR:
- Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
- Having a finely bevelled edge.
- (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
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(in-compounds) Having a specific type or number of feathers.
a blue-feathered bird
- (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.
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(poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
[…]when at night he sees moon and stars, mountain ridges feathered with pines, jutting white capes, bold promontories[…]
1869, Mark Twain, chapter XLVIII, in The Innocents Abroad, page 508:
Deriveds
feathered friend · pinfeathered · fine-feathered friend · unfeathered · feathered oof-bird · feathered folk · nonfeathered · protofeathered · featheredness
Synonyms
Translations (21)
la penniger (covered with feathers) · de gefedert (covered with feathers) · pt emplumado (covered with feathers) · de mit Federn besetzt (covered with feathers) · vo penik (covered with feathers) · es emplumado (covered with feathers) · vo plümilabik (covered with feathers) · pl upierzony (covered with feathers) · de gefiedert (covered with feathers) · nl bevederd (covered with feathers) · fr emplumé (covered with feathers) · pt empenado (covered with feathers) · ca empenat (covered with feathers) · ca emplomallat (covered with feathers) · fr à plumes (covered with feathers) · it pennuto (covered with feathers) · ga eiteach (covered with feathers) · la pennātus (covered with feathers) · pl opierzony (covered with feathers) · ru перна́тый (covered with feathers) · pl pierzasty (covered with feathers)