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English
Etymology
From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.
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featherless (not comparable)
- Having no feathers.
- Synonyms: apteric, unfeathered
- Coordinate terms: defeathered, plucked
1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 128:He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.
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