feather duster

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It’s an arresting image that signals the production’s bold, stylized approach to this canonical text, often treated as an antique that requires only a feather duster to be brought back to life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Don’t use a feather duster or anything similar that stirs up dust, Filippelli said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

The “hair” sprouting off this branch resembles a downy feather duster or fluffy tuft of cotton—maybe even fragments of a bad white wig.

From Scientific American • Dec. 7, 2021

Lupita Nyong’o has arrived wearing the loveliest full-body snow-white feather duster, from which Lakeith Stanfield is cautiously withdrawing his fingertips.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2019

I said, “In between spring and fall, and fall and spring, ma’am, you just s’posed to sweep and mop and use the feather duster and like that.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns