plumage
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
plumage
- (ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally.
- 1969, Monty Python, "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" (Dead Parrot sketch)
- [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.
- Synonyms: pennage
- 1969, Monty Python, "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" (Dead Parrot sketch)
- Finery or elaborate dress.
- French: plumage, plume (pars pro toto), plumée, pennage (falconry)
- German: Gefieder, Vogelgefieder, Federkleid, Federschmuck
- Italian: piumaggio, piume
- Portuguese: plumagem
- Russian: опере́ние
- Spanish: plumaje
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