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in full feather
adjective as in dressed to the nines
Example Sentences
Dressed in full feather gear, Sherman said that she was shocked to learn her dead owl husband had a severe case of pigeon herpes — but maybe it wasn’t so surprising given that he had lots of sex with anything that had wings.
That everyone was in full feather at this restaurant, Les Trois Chevaux, was no coincidence.
More than 3,300 people signed a Change.org petition this summer urging the district to change the mascot -an image of a Native American chief in full feather headdress - by the school’s 100th anniversary in 2022.
Although the plan was announced as an attempt to return “ ‘integrity’ to the voting booth” following the late 19th century rise of Southern black political power, it actually delivered Jim Crow in full feather.
But a representative from the Parks Department assured us that the airborne creature was not an overgrown pigeon, but, indeed, our national symbol in full feather.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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