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English
Etymology
From French déplumer, from Latin dēplūmō, from dē- + plūmō (“to cover with feathers”), from plūma (“feather”). Compare dēplūmis (“featherless”).
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Verb
deplume (third-person singular simple present deplumes, present participle depluming, simple past and past participle deplumed)
- (transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
- Synonym: defeather
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather.
2012, Ócha'ni Lele, Sacrificial Ceremonies of Santería:Before the birds are cut and quartered by the butchers they must be totally deplumed.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lay bare; to expose.
c. 1841, Thomas De Quincey, Libellous Attacks...:the exposure and depluming […] of the leading humbugs of the age
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