deplumation

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

   • […] through the violence of her moulting, or deplumation, she comes into this earthly body deprived of that blessed life which she before enjoyed.
2. 2

   Loss of the eyelashes due to disease of the eyelids.

   • Systemic symptoms include headache, anorexia and sometimes nausea, vomiting, tinnitus and deafness, and deplumation or bleaching of the hair may occur.
   • I hope now the violence both of his tartian [=tertian] ague & feaver & the deplun [=deplumation], which has been so troublesome in his eyes as since his last writing to your worships to quite deprive him of his sight, is gone of
   • Little did anyone expect that five decades after the company's launch, their research into deplumation would pan-out in a most unusual way — designer eyelashes.
3. 3

   The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige

   The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation.

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