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Example sentences for: feathers

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The term was originally start naked (Middle English stert, from Old English steart `tail, ass') and is preserved in redstart `bird with red tail feathers.
This year as always, Paris fashion has meant fabulous-looking girls slinking along in foot-high hair or plastered-flat hair with grim or giddy hats and stark painted faces, sporting fitted tops, transparent tops, cutout tops, tight skirts slit to here, full skirts trailing to there, floppy pants or skinny pants, trimmings that glitter or flutter, colors that dazzle or puzzle, curled feathers and dyed fur, boiled wool and frosted leather, crushed velvet, shot silk, frayed hemp, and distressed plastic.
According to an article published in November in the British magazine New Scientist , Tapio Eeva and his colleagues report that because pollutants from a copper smelter in the town of Harjavalta dull the plumage of local great tits, they are unable to perform a courtship dance that relies on the display of bright feathers.
Gripping storytelling and an ingenious use of men in feathers are the most praised elements of the production.
Pick up just about any issue and what you'll find is a kind of literary balm--a quietly reverential attitude toward books in general, combined with a disinclination to ruffle feathers.