plumage
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Plumage might have been their key adaptation, Olsen argues.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2022
Such was the carnage that in 1889 Emily Williamson founded the Plumage League for women who refused to wear them.
From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2018
New Book Brings Joyful Splash of Plumage, Real and Imagined A book of birds, real and otherwise, hatched from the imagination of the artist Ralph Steadman, is bound to be a feast for the eyes.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2012
Plumage In Havana, a Mrs. Bernard Duis bought two bright, lively birds whose plumage matched her red hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plumage, plōōm′āj, n. the whole feathers of a bird.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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