Befeather

Quick meaning: Befeather is a verb meaning (transitive) To deck or cover with feathers.

Meaning

(transitive) To deck or cover with feathers.

Example Sentences

They were making a human fetish doll out of clay, painting and befeathering it, offering yuca to it.

In fact, Grace found it very difficult to find a milliner who, if left to her own devices, would not befeather and beflower her past all self-recognition, giving to her that generally betousled and fly-away air which comes straight from the demi-monde of Paris.

The men were not ill made, but they disfigured themselves with grease and coarse paint; they were of a dark copper-colour, with lank black hair, which they tied in a knot behind; but they so bepowdered, or rather befeathered it with down, that the colour was hardly discernible […]

Word Forms

• befeathers
• befeathering
• befeathered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include defeather, unfeather, deplume, deplumate, pelt, unplume.

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