Featheredness
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being feathered; presence of feathers. uncountable
"But it happened that they had not yet reached that state of featheredness which he considered desirable; and having nothing else to do, he sat down under the tree to watch the old ones bringing them the fattest worms, and freshest bugs, and other delicacies of the season."
Example
More examples"But it happened that they had not yet reached that state of featheredness which he considered desirable; and having nothing else to do, he sat down under the tree to watch the old ones bringing them the fattest worms, and freshest bugs, and other delicacies of the season."
Etymology
From feathered + -ness.
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