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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
à l'oiseau royal (invariable)
- (historical, fashion) feathered, plumed, crested
1834, Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades; republished as chapter IV, in Anthony Briggs, transl., The Queen of Spades and Selected Works, London: Pushkin Press, 2012, page 47:"Creeping up these very stairs," he thought, "maybe sixty years ago, some happy youth, long since mouldering in his grave, would have gone through into that same bedroom at a time like this, dressed in an embroidered tunic, with his hair done à l'oiseau royal, clutching a three-cornered hat to his breast; and the heart of his ancient lover has stopped beating only today...