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Definition of Deplumes
1. deplume [v] - See also: deplume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deplumes
Literary usage of Deplumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"\Ve are delighted to welcome this pleasant writer, in her own name, from the
mysterious ranks of the tt deplumes. ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"... deplumes himself to feather all the naked callows that he sees, and holds a
taper that may light others to heaven, while be burns his own fingers: but a ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"When the hawk strikes her quarry in the air and clings to it she binds; when she
flies off with it she carries, when she plucks it she deplumes. ..."
4. The Art and Practice of Hawking by Edward Blair Michell (1900)
"When she strips the feathers of the " pelt," or dead body, of the quarry, she "
deplumes "; and as she passes the food from her crop downwards she " puts ..."
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