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Plumage vs Feathering - What's the difference?

plumage | feathering |

As nouns the difference between plumage and feathering

is that plumage is feathers, either covering a bird or used ornamentally while feathering is a feathered texture.

As a verb feathering is

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plumage

English

Noun

  • Feathers, either covering a bird or used ornamentally
  • * 1969 , )
    • [Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage !
    [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
  • Finery or elaborate dress.

    • Related terms

    * plumate * plumelet

    feathering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feathered texture.
  • * 1834 , Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
    • The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings , the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered