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tail feather

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Noun1.tail feathertail feather - feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird
sickle feather - one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster
flight feather, quill feather, pinion, quill - any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird


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Lastly, she put her dead husband's wig on the bare scalp of the pumpkin, and surmounted the whole with a dusty three-cornered hat, in which was stuck the longest tail feather of a rooster.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
In the above-described warfare, if a Pygmy chanced to pluck out a crane's tail feather, it proved a very great feather in his cap.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The Jacobin has the feathers so much reversed along the back of the neck that they form a hood, and it has, proportionally to its size, much elongated wing and tail feathers.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
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