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Panels of silk lamé and chiffon paired with crystals and long, feather-like sequin embellishments might seem party-aesthetics only, but paired with a white tee and sandal, this slip skirt is everyday festive.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025

Its anatomy may help to explain how pterosaurs achieved flight and why both dinosaurs and pterosaurs had a feather-like fuzz covering their skin, the team noted.

From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2020

He said thousands of newborns died this year because most of the 300,000-strong herd of goats, which yields around 45 tons of fine feather-like wool each year, remained trapped in the extreme cold.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2020

In the winter, they grow feather-like appendages on their feet to help them walk on snow.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

Ice′-feath′ers, peculiar feather-like forms assumed by ice at the summits of mountains.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various