featherless
English
Etymology
From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.
Adjective
featherless (not comparable)
- Having no feathers.
- 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, Chapter, p. 128,
- He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.
- 1929, Robert E. Howard, "Rattle of Bones" in Weird Tales, June 1929,
- […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.
- 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, Chapter, p. 128,
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