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quill

[kwil] / kwɪl /


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Instead, she decided "I'm just going to enjoy it" and wore - appropriately - a red quill headpiece to the Baftas.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

The back features a genie’s lamp resting on an open book and a feathered quill with an olive branch in the background—symbols of peace, knowledge and learning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

The set list mixed new songs with old favorites: “Bloody Mary” into “Abracadabra” into “Judas” into the German-language “Sheiße,” which involved a bunch of oversize quill pens and a Last Supper-style tableau.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025

I would exercise my First Amendment right to free speech—but in the old-fashioned way: by scratching out pamphlets with a quill pen and handing them out on the street.

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

To learn early American history, for example, students dressed in costumes of the era and were taught how to spin yarn, hook rugs, and use quill pens.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

As late as the 1800s, most commodities were cultivated: Cinnamon bark was peeled and rolled into quills, opium juiced from poppies, and tea leaves dried out in the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Each one is hand-plucked, which means you may spot a few black quills here and there; the company insists they’re harmless, and they disappear once cooked.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

BBC Scotland News understands bedding was discovered with porcupine quills in the straw.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025

North American porcupines replaced these with a mix of insulating fur and long, needle-like quills that can be raised when they feel threatened.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

The long, sharp quills running along its back stood straight up and it expanded its shoulders menacingly.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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