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• The peacock displayed its resplendent plumage.From the entry resplendent
• Occupying the dense forest understory, cupwings generally have dark brown plumage and a very short tail.2016, Handbook of Bird Biology, volume cupwings, page 55. From the entry cupwing
• His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits.2015, Nick Davies, chapter 3, in Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature (paperback), London: Bloomsbury, page 53. From the entry jizz
• It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage.2010, Deborah Davis, Party of the Century. From the entry coq
• No matter what plumage it's in, the Nashville always sports a complete white to whitish eye-ring.2005, Bill Thompson III et al., Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN…. From the entry Nashville
• Distinguished from Black-headed Greenfinch by lack of dark head pattern and warmer brown plumage.2000 June 8, John Ramsay MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, “Grey-capped Greenfinch”, in A Field Guide to the Birds of China, Oxford University…. From the entry black-headed greenfinch
• The plumage pattern of the red-backed shrike male is conspicuous from a long distance.1993, E. Curio, “Proximate and Developmental Aspects of Antipredator Behavior”, in Advances in the Study of Behavior, volume 22, San…. From the entry eyestripe
• But now the subdebutante is dynamic, gregarious and at the peak of her plumage.1941 January 27, “Subdebs”, in LIFE, page 75. From the entry subdebutante
• A behavior in which the fluids from ants, notably formic acid, are applied to the plumage and possibly the skin.2013, Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., Ornithology in Laboratory and Field, 4th edition, Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 251. From the entry anting
• The dark slate-grey plumage contrasting strongly with white 'chinstrap' is shared only by Blue Eared-pheasant, but their ranges do not overlap.2010, Phil McGowan, Steve Madge, Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse, page 313. From the entry chinstrap
• Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.2007, Jeroen Willem Hendrik Reneerkens, Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae)…. From the entry faeder
• The nominate Alexandrine has green plumage and an immense beak.2005, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry alexandrine
• The name fireback comes from this bird's dazzling plumage.2001, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World, →ISBN, page 551. From the entry fireback
• It is somewhat larger than the Southern bird and the plumage of young birds and also the feminas are darker.1913, The Agricultural Journal of British East Africa, page 8. From the entry femina
• It settled on a limb and began dressing its plumage.1911, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Harvester, page 46. From the entry skift
• Most likely they were just assuring themselves that there really was some skin, however little, on these gigantic wingless parrot-men with their ridiculous plumage.1994, Stuart B. Schwartz, Implicit Understandings. From the entry weatherbeatenness
• The one whose head is held forward represents the male in fall plumage — the back slate gray and the breast a cinnamon pink.1974, George Ross Starr, Decoys of the Atlantic flyway, page 88. From the entry brownback
• In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies. From the entry bib
• Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Council with the Munchkins”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge]…. From the entry flutter
• The Planalto Slaty-antshrike (Thamnophilus pelzelni) and the Sooretama Slaty-antshrike (T. ambiguus) are most easily distinguished by subtle and localized changes in plumage colors of males and females.2007, Brazilian Journal of Biology, volume 67, page 873. From the entry Sooretama slaty antshrike
• Missing were four eclectus parrots—the male is bright green, the female brigh red—and five Pesquet's parrots which have spectacular red and black plumage, much coveted for tribal head-dresses.1973, Pacific Islands Monthly: PIM. From the entry Pesquet's parrot
• The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67. From the entry dull
• In the winter the plumage changes to a gray with black streaks , and in this dress the Sea Pigeon comes to the waters of Casco Bay quite plentifully.1904, W. H. Brownson, “A Visit to Grand Manan Island”, in The Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society, page 75. From the entry sea pigeon
• When beach-going, the Texanist is always coated with a liberal slathering of cocoa butter and always has his full, uncut chest, leg, and back plumage on display (no manscaper he).2017, David Courtney, Jack Unruh, The Texanist: Fine Advice on Living in Texas, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry manscaper
• This feature is the ocellation of the tail feathers of the male of the species, whose brilliant plumage earned its reputation since antiquity as the most beautiful of all birds.1997, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry ocellation
• There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.1913, Eden Phillpotts, chapter IV, in Widecombe Fair, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 26. From the entry hurtle

Meaning of plumage

1. noun The feathers covering the body of a bird collectively.
2. noun Feathers used ornamentally; feathering; (countable) a bunch or tuft of such feathers; a plume.
3. noun Feathers which are fed to a hawk to cause it to regurgitate, for the purpose of cleaning its crop; a type of casting.

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How do you use plumage in a sentence?

Plumage is used as a noun. For example: “The peacock displayed its resplendent plumage.”

What is a short sentence with plumage?

“The peacock displayed its resplendent plumage.”

What does plumage mean?

Plumage means the feathers covering the body of a bird collectively.