feathery

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   covered, edged, or decorated with feathers

   A feathery crest rose from the bird's head.

2. 2
   adj

   light, soft, delicate, or finely divided in a way that resembles feathers

   Feathery clouds spread across the evening sky.

Formed from feather + -y. Feather descends from Old English fether and a Germanic word related to flight. The literal sense means furnished with feathers; the figurative sense compares a light, delicate, or finely divided shape or texture to them.

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