| 单词 | full-feathered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfull-feathered full-feathered adj. = full-fledged adj. (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > young bird > [adjective] > fledged fledge1398 full-feathered1533 flush1561 full-fledged1579 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vii. p. cccxvi When our yonge egle Tyndale lerned to spye this pray fyrste, he was not yet full fethered, but scantly comen out of ye shell. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 240/2 Summed, or Somed, full summed, is when a Hawk is in her Plums or Feathers: full Feathered, the Feathers and Quills at the full groath. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. xi. 254 Barton is a full-feathered pigeon. 1835 E. Shore Jrnl. 11 June (1891) vi. 104 In a fortnight the young ones [sc. coal-tits] were full-feathered, and flew away. 1906 Poultry Success Aug. 5/2 (advt.) Bucknam's largest and best ‘Mammoth’ light and ‘full-feathered’ imported English Dark Brahmas. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 334 Not an unusual state of affairs for a fledgling in any art, but disconcerting to a full-feathered mid-careerist. < as lemmas |
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