feathering
English
Noun
feathering (plural featherings)
- Plumage.
- A feathered texture.
- 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
- The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered […]
- 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
- The fitting of feathers to arrows.
- (architecture) An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
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