featherless
adj/ˈfɛðələs/UK/ˈfɛðəɹləs/US
Etymology
From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.
- inherited from fethirles
Definitions
Having no feathers.
- He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.
- […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.
The neighborhood
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