plumage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The feathers covering a bird's body.

   The male peacock spread his brilliant blue and green plumage.

From Old French plumage (14c.), itself from plume (“feather”) (from Latin plūma (“feather, down”), from a Proto-Indo-European base *plews- (“to pluck, a feather, fleece”) + -age.

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