featherless

Etymology

From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.

adj

  1. Having no feathers.
    He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful. 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 128
    […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face. 1929 June, Robert E. Howard, “Rattle of Bones”, in Weird Tales

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