"befeather" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- + feather.",
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      "form": "befeathers",
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      "form": "befeathered",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean: on Discovery, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, pp. 223-224",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "ref": "1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 25, in Pink and White Tyranny, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 291",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Leonard Clark, The Rivers Ran East",
          "text": "They were making a human fetish doll out of clay, painting and befeathering it, offering yuca to it.",
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        "To deck or cover with feathers."
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        "(transitive) To deck or cover with feathers."
      ],
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  "etymology_text": "From be- + feather.",
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      "form": "befeathers",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "befeathering",
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          "ref": "1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean: on Discovery, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, pp. 223-224",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(transitive) To deck or cover with feathers."
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