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feathery

adjective as in plumed

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The creation has a feathery train and a ragged flow of ruffled panels, which create the body of the dress and extend to the floor.

Feathery and light, it can prepare the ground for all that follows.

One day in Pennsylvania, he slaughtered 70 pheasant in a fine display of feathery carnage.

When rapidly deposited, as by artificial precipitation, triple phosphate often takes feathery, star- or leaf-like forms.

It was about a foot high with branching leaves and a fine feathery white flower.

Tussocks of feathery grass covered the rough surface of the ground, and out of these the larks soared into the hate of sunshine.

A little distance off, the feathery branches of a larch waved softly to and fro in the scarcely perceptible night-breeze.

On their poles in their house all the White Wyandottes perched like feathery balls, their heads sunk low on their breasts.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to feathery, such as: feathered, fluffy, downy, and light.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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