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Meanings of feathery in English

Adorned with feathers or plumes.

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Resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers.

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Examples for "featherlike"
Examples for "featherlike"
1
Something soft and featherlike brushed very faintly across Aria's cheek, and she jumped.
Heartless
2
His face was gray, his hair more featherlike than I'd ever seen it.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
3
A few spikes of coarse, featherlike hair escaped to hang loose over the jagged hole in his white face.
Nevermore
4
And every one of these flat and angular slabs was fringed with hairlike needles, or with featherlike needles, and longer needles stood in between.
Over Prairie Trails
Usage of feathery in English
1
The children snuggled under the feathery shadow of the mesquite beside him.
The Trail Book
2
It is composed entirely of the white feathery flowers of the thatch-grass.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
3
The sun set behind the feathery foliage of the blossoming -Sajna -tree
The Home and the World
4
The lazy, feathery clouds were yet drifting before the moon and stars.
The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne
5
All four horses were hidden by the huge feathery spouts of sand.
Small wars: a novel
6
They were full of feathery softness and of sudden and spirited scratches.
A Miscellany of Men
7
Farther down were stretches of grass and groves of lovely feathery bamboo.
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay o...
8
The tamarind tree was unremarkable- awidetrunk clouded by thick, feathery leaves.
The poison eaters: and other stories
9
A great tamarisk with feathery foliage of bright green formed a background.
The Idol of Paris
10
I suddenly felt a delicate, feathery touch on my arm, and started.
The fracture zone: my return to the balkans
11
It had begun to snow-large, feathery flakes which clung to every surface.
The forgotten soldier
12
At one end, next the rhubarb, grew feathery asparagus, with red berries.
O Pioneers!
13
Your feet lag, as the feathery whiteness comes almost to your knees.
Vandemark's Folly
14
The tall pampas-grass, with its long feathery plumes, gives a profitable crop.
Stories of California
15
He trailed the rose upward and circled her breasts with feathery strokes.
Midnight hero
16
It consisted of a feathery headdress, a lime green skin-suit, and slippers.
Logos Run
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common