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名詞

featheredness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being feathered; presence of feathers.
   • 1871, Sarah des Brisay, Jack the Fly-Killer

     But it happened that they had not yet reached that state of featheredness which he considered desirable; and having nothing else to do, he sat down under the tree to watch the old ones bringing them the fattest worms, and freshest bugs, and other delicacies of the season.