feathered
adjective
clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
unfeathered
-
a word derived from
feathered.
Example Sentences
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This is the dawn of a weekend when more than a million people from the Washington region are expected to travel 50 or more miles in search of an unfeathered, roasted bird.
From Washington Post
He feathered it a while, then unfeathered just before we hit the German border.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once she got into teaching, and then into the deanship, Virginia kept Barnard-on-the-subway a lot like herself: unfeathered, serious, competent.
From Time Magazine Archive
The splendid ostentation of these buildings makes their present inhabitants look somehow unfeathered.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a game of cherubs, though of cherubs slightly unfeathered as a result of belonging to the pious English upper-middle classes.
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
