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
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
As for tools, Zedd says, use whatever you have on hand: microfiber cloths with a spray of mild soap and water, baby wipes or a feather duster.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2021
The feather duster is a goose that lays golden eggs; the ladder, the tower from which Rapunzel lets down her hair; the curtain rod, a support for the dresses worn by Cinderella’s hardhearted Stepsisters.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2016
He flailed about with the feather duster and went straight to bed, as if doing so would hasten the morning’s arrival.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
