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down feather
noun as in contour feather
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Example Sentences
They wore in their heads feathers of owls, ravens, and birds of prey, each of which had at the tip a large white down feather.
From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather.
Finally the tips of the barbs break through the investing sheath and the fully formed down-feather emerges.
The remainder of the rods form the barbs and barbules as in the down-feather.
Before he set out, he plucked from his breast a small down-feather and fastened it to a stick no bigger than a wisp of hay.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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