plumage
Example Sentences
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A few days ago, lead guitarist Tommy Thayer suggested they switch out the shock bombs for fiery mushroom-shaped plumages during the opening moments of “Deuce.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2019
Others were decorated with the plumages of peacocks and ostriches or adorned with sable and chinchilla.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2018
Complementing the regal black-and-white plumages are hand-carved wooden beads made from driftwood found in the Luangwa’s lush riverbeds, vintage Zambian coins collected in Mfuwe markets, and vegetable ivory seeds sourced from towering tagua palms.
From National Geographic • May 17, 2018
Just such a reminder of what a rich world of fiction, in all its vast and varied plumages, waits out there for the daring reader.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
In the course of them she was like some impassioned bird of brilliant plumages, tossing her feathers, fluttering behind the bars of her cage at some impertinent, teasing passer-by.
From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
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