Befeather
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To deck or cover with feathers. transitive
"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 […]"
Example
More 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 […]"
Etymology
From be- + feather.
More for "befeather"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.