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befeathered

befeathered is the simple past and past participle of befeather.

Meaning of befeather

Verb

befeather (third-person singular simple present befeathers, present participle befeathering, simple past and past participle befeathered)

  1. (transitive) To deck or cover with feathers.
    • 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 […]1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean: on Discovery, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, pp. 223-224

Adjective

befeathered (not comparable)

  1. Feathered; covered or augmented with feathers.
    • He bore about the same relation to his tall, good-looking wife, with her balloon sleeves, abundant mantle, and a large befeathered and beribboned bonnet, as a small fishing-smack bears to a brig with all its sails spread.1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book I, Chapter 7
    • It was the zenith of London’s last, maddest “season”; but her pleasure crowd—the dancers in her night-clubs; the befeathered scantily-draped women of her Opera House; the placemen, the panderers and the nincompoops who made pretence of governing her—had departed; were “week-ending” in...1920, Gilbert Frankau, Peter Jameson: A Modern Romance, New York: Knopf, Part Three, § 1

Questions about befeathered

What does befeathered mean?
Befeathered means feathered; covered or augmented with feathers.
What is befeathered the simple past and past participle of?
Befeathered is the simple past and past participle of befeather.
What part of speech is befeathered?
Befeathered is an adjective.

Words near befeathered in the dictionary

  1. befangled
  2. befangs
  3. befanned
  4. befast
  5. befeather
  6. befeathered
  7. befeathering
  8. befeathers
  9. befel
  10. befeld
  11. befell

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