plumage

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plumage englannista suomeksi

1. höyhenpuku, höyhen, höyhenpeite

0. Substantiivi

1. höyhenet, höyhenpeite, höyhenpuku

2. puku

plumage englanniksi

1. (senseid) The feathers covering the body of a bird collectively.

(syn)

2. (RQ:Turberville Faulconrie), large footed, very well penned, theyr downe and plumage excellent fine, their tungs blacke, and their nares large and wide.

3. (RQ:Drayton Muses Elizium) ſtayes all the day abroad, / And vvondrous proud that he a place had found, / (..) / Bathing himſelfe, vvhich long he had not done, / And dryes his feathers in the vvelcome Sunne, / Pruning his plumage, clenſing euery quill, / And going back, he beareth in his bill / An Oliue leafe, by vvhich ''Noah'' vnderſtood / The great decreaſe and vvaning of the flood: (..)

4. (RQ:Willughby Ray Ornithology)

5. (RQ:Darwin Origin of Species)

6. (RQ:Darwin Descent of Man) in their first plumage differ from each other according to sex; the young males resembling more or less closely the adult males, and the young females more or less closely the adult females.

7. (RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)'s shoulder.

8. (RQ:Eddison Worm)

9. (quote-av)|title=Python’s Flying Circus|Monty Python’s Flying Circus|season=1|number=8|passage=''Shopkeeper'' ((w)): No, no, he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! / ''Praline|Mr. Praline'' (John Cleese): The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

11. Feathers used ornamentally; feathering; a bunch or tuft of such feathers; a plume.

12. (RQ:Carlyle Friedrich)

13. Feathers which are fed to a hawk to cause it to regurgitate, for the purpose of cleaning its crop; a type of casting.

14. (RQ:Turberville Faulconrie)

15. A person's dress, especially when elaborate or fine.

16. (RQ:Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin)

17. A person's external appearance, especially when showy.

18. (RQ:Wordsworth Prelude)

19. (RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak)

20. (l) (gloss)