Collocations withfeather

These are words often used in combination withfeather.

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blue feather
Undertail coverts white; in adult males usually with some blue feather tips.
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brown feather
From the fifth week they are covered in dark brown feathers flecked with white.
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chicken feathers
I would also raise the point of the import of chicken feathers.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
down feathers
Ticking is a tightly woven fabric, originally to prevent down feathers from poking through the fabric.
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downy feathers
Juveniles resemble adults, with the exception of some downy feathers on the head.
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eagle feather
A warrior who won coup was permitted to wear an eagle feather in his hair.
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green feather
She performed it wearing a green feather dress.
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ostrich feather
The concomitant collapse of ivory and wild ostrich feather production underlined the fact that harvesting wild animals on the public commons was unsustainable.
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peacock feather
The sunflower, lily and peacock feather therefore distanced their user from the world of feminine frills.
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red feather
Unlike the other species of waxwing, it lacks the row of waxy red feather-tips on the wing which gives the birds their name.
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white feather
He is encouraged to do it rather than to show a sort of white feather.
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