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English
Etymology
From be- + feather.
Verb
befeather (third-person singular simple present befeathers, present participle befeathering, simple past and past participle befeathered)
- (transitive) To deck or cover with feathers.
1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean: on Discovery, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, pp. 223-224:The men were not ill made, but they disfigured themselves with grease and coarse paint; they were of a dark copper-colour, with lank black hair, which they tied in a knot behind; but they so bepowdered, or rather befeathered it with down, that the colour was hardly discernible […]
1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 25, in Pink and White Tyranny, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 291:In fact, Grace found it very difficult to find a milliner who, if left to her own devices, would not befeather and beflower her past all self-recognition, giving to her that generally betousled and fly-away air which comes straight from the demi-monde of Paris.
2001, Leonard Clark, The Rivers Ran East:They were making a human fetish doll out of clay, painting and befeathering it, offering yuca to it.
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