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feather duster

noun

a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.

First recorded in 1855–60

Loeb was notorious for front-page editorials that often employed a sledgehammer where a feather duster would do.

Edna was sitting on the tabouret, idly brushing the tips of a feather duster along the carpet when he came in again.

"Everything is so sweet and cosey I almost envy you," she added, dusting the top of the clock with a tiny feather duster.

They are eternally poking into corners with a feather duster.

A feather duster was stuck in for a tail, and his woolly head gave him the uncanny look of a black harpy.

"I bet yer he ain't," Aaron replied, as Philip approached with a sample garment in one hand and the feather duster in the other.

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