OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4965

feather

/ˈfɛð.ə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pluma • péndola
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers, adding to t…
Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
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