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Definition of Plumaged
1. Adjective. Having or covered in plumage; often used as a combining form. "Brilliantly plumaged parrots"
Definition of Plumaged
1. Adjective. Having plumage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plumaged
1. plumage [adj] - See also: plumage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumaged
Literary usage of Plumaged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Love and the Soul Maker by Mary Hunter Austin (1914)
"IT was after this session under the full- plumaged trees that we ceased to talk
of the personal aspects of ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... is »aid to lie the most gorgeously- plumaged of all known birds ; the female
is more sombre in dress. ..."
3. A search for fortune, autobiography by Hamilton Lindsay- Bucknall (1878)
"... deemed impracticable—Beautifully plumaged
birds—Butterflies—Beetles—Feather-flowers—A matter for the consideration of Lady
Burdett Coutts—The return to ..."
4. Women of the South Distinguished in Literature by Mary Forrest (1866)
"... plumaged," and if there were, ''a bird of plumaged wing" would mean only a
bird whose wings wore feathered, and as all birds are winged and their wings ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Fine plumaged males taken in late September and young are passing until October 26.
... I saw and heard a full plumaged male in song on the campus, May 14, ..."
6. Women of the South Distinguished in Literature by Julia Deane Freeman (1866)
"There is no such participle in the language as "plumaged," and if there were, "a
bird of plumaged wing" would mean only a bird whose wings were feathered, ..."
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