Feathern

'Sit down, sit down, my master dear, Write a love-letter hastily, And put it in under my feathern gray, And I'll away to southen land as fast as I can flee. […]'

"Youse two birds will be after pullin' th' tail feathern out av each other and litterin' up th' landscape with loud squawks."

It may still be prevalent in parti-colored breeds where excellence of feathern pattern seems enhanced by slow juvenile feather growth.

From above looking down Your black feathern crown Why you always make a sound Can't stand still chi chi man […]

When the le-gator finished its feathern meal, it roared loudly, a roar that set all winged creatures to flight, and it slunk its bulk back into the water and swam out to the middle of the pond, its eyes and nostrils the only parts of its dragonserpent body above the waterline.