"feathersome" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more feathersome [comparative], most feathersome [superlative]
Etymology: From feather + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|feather|some}} feather + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} feathersome (comparative more feathersome, superlative most feathersome)
  1. Characterised or marked by feathers
    Sense id: en-feathersome-en-adj-nVf3YS6J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some

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          "ref": "1922, I.C. Tomlinson, The Revelation of Saint John",
          "text": "I've watched in the azure the eagle's proud wing, / His soaring majestic, and feathersome fling—— / Careening in liberty higher and higher—[...]",
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          "ref": "1992, Clive Sutton, Words, Science And Learning",
          "text": "With the rise of writing 'leaf' was taken over as a reasonable word for the piece of material on which to write and 'quill' for the instrument with which to write, though the quill gradually became less and less feathersome.",
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          "ref": "1993, Shatrughna P. Sinha, Instant encyclopaedia of geography - Volume 9",
          "text": "Furthermore, the birds orientate themselves carefully with regard to the sun and gently flap their feathersome wings to increase convective cooling.",
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          "ref": "1999, Tabor Evans, Longarm 244: Longarm and the Devil's Sister",
          "text": "They didn't have to move to the east with the more feathersome Arapaho in '75 because they chose to be self- supporting and law-abiding residents of this here state capital.",
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          "ref": "2007, Angela McAllister, Ian Beck, Digory and the Lost King",
          "text": "\"Nothing to worry about. Just a bit of dungeon work — does a man good to do an honest day's work now and then. Mind you, I do miss the royal, um, you know . . . plumpy-feathersome- spring-'n'-bounce?\"",
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