feathery

[ feth-uh-ree ]

adjective

Origin of feathery

First recorded in 1570–80; feather + -y¹

The creation has a feathery train and a ragged flow of ruffled panels, which create the body of the dress and extend to the floor.
Here Comes the Bride…In Flaming Red: Two Centuries of Colorful Wedding Dresses | Liza Foreman | May 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
feathery and light, it can prepare the ground for all that follows.
10 Rules for a Great Valentine's Day Kiss | William Cane | February 13, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
One day in Pennsylvania, he slaughtered 70 pheasant in a fine display of feathery carnage.
Sarah Palin, the Sequel | Christopher Buckley | November 10, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
When rapidly deposited, as by artificial precipitation, triple phosphate often takes feathery, star- or leaf-like forms.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
It was about a foot high with branching leaves and a fine feathery white flower.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner

Tussocks of feathery grass covered the rough surface of the ground, and out of these the larks soared into the hate of sunshine.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. | John Galsworthy
A little distance off, the feathery branches of a larch waved softly to and fro in the scarcely perceptible night-breeze.
Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
On their poles in their house all the White Wyandottes perched like feathery balls, their heads sunk low on their breasts.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon Anderson

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