Deplumation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌdiːpluːˈmeɪʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Deplumation is a noun meaning The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Meaning
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
More Meanings
- (medicine) Loss of the eyelashes due to disease of the eyelids.
- (figurative) The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation.
Example Sentences
[…] through the violence of her moulting, or deplumation, she comes into this earthly body deprived of that blessed life which she before enjoyed.
Systemic symptoms include headache, anorexia and sometimes nausea, vomiting, tinnitus and deafness, and deplumation or bleaching of the hair may occur.
Little did anyone expect that five decades after the company's launch, their research into deplumation would pan-out in a most unusual way — designer eyelashes.
From his headquarters in Minnesota and anxious to regain lost ground after his deplumation the summer before, General Terry proclaimed Gibbon's effort a "brilliant success."
Word Forms
- deplumations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include defoliation, deplication, displenishment, effoliation, plummet, decerption.
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