featherless

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/ˈfɛðələs/

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/ˈfɛðələs/ · /ˈfɛðəɹləs/

Definition of featherless

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adj

(not-comparable)Having no feathers.

“He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.”
“[…] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.”

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From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.

200+ playable · top: FATHERLESS (16 pts)

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