down-covered
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The best down is got by robbing the down-covered nest, an inferior kind by plucking the dead birds.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Only those persons who were close to the king wore the down-filled or down-covered net caps and feather plumes on their heads.
From Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 by Robert F. Heizer
For the first half-inch it proceeded soundly enough, a series of neat, over-lapping, down-covered scale-rings, then, for the next two-and-three-quarter inches it presented all the naked hideousness of an X-ray photograph.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by Douglas English
Gales but serve thee for swifter flying, Foam crested waves with thy wings thou dost sweep, Wonderful dun-colored, down-covered body, Living thy life on the face of the deep!
From The California Birthday Book by Various
What actually decided me to commit so heinous a sin was a remark dropped by one of the peddlers that my down-covered face made me look like a "green one."
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
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