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plumage

noun
/ˈpluːmɪd͡ʒ/UK/ˈpljuːmɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Old French plumage (14c.), itself from plume (“feather”) (from Latin plūma (“feather, down”), from a Proto-Indo-European base *plews- (“to pluck, a feather, fleece”) + -age. By surface analysis, plume + -age.

  1. derived from plūma — “feather, down”
  2. derived from plumage

Definitions

  1. Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body

    Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.

    • In some few cases the young in their first plumage differ from each other according to sex; the young males resembling more or less closely the adult males, and the young females more or less closely the adult females.
    • Somewhat like a heron she was, but stouter, and shorter of leg, and her beak shorter and thicker than the heron’s; and so long and delicate was her pale gray plumage that hard it was to say whether it were hair or feathers.
    • [Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

  2. Finery or elaborate dress.

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Derived

alternate plumage, basic plumage, eclipse plumage, nuptial plumage, plumaged

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at plumage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at plumage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at plumage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA