Meaning & use
feather
One of the light, flat structures that grow from a bird's skin and form its covering.
See it in a sentence
A single blue feather drifted down from the jay perched above the fence.
The pillow was stuffed with soft goose feathers instead of synthetic filling.
A note on using this word
The idiom a feather in one's cap describes an achievement someone can be proud of, unrelated to actual feathers.
Words with a similar meaning
plumequill
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