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 Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
Madeline was just twenty years of age, when, as the wife of Edward Leslie, she left this warm down-covered nest, and was borne to a new and more elegant home.
From Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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 Heizer, Robert F.
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 English, Douglas
Their heads and necks were down-covered, instead of being naked like those of their parents.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
