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单词 rocky mountain feathers
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Rocky Mountain feathers
Rocky Mountain feathers n. North American slang (originally) †pine tassels used as bedding (obsolete); (later) dry wood shavings used to start a fire. Now rare.
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1860 H. J. Hawley Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Colorado Mag. (1953) Apr. 145 In the evening I fixed my bed which consists of Rocky Mountain feathers, Pine boughs.
1887 B. Harte & A. Roman Overland Monthly & Out West Mag. June 639/2 [He] proceeded to make their bed, clipping off the green tassels—‘Rocky Mountain feathers’—until, before it was quite dark, he had a goodly pile to carry into the cabin.
1962 Maclean's 18 July 44/2 I started a fire with a handful of ‘Rocky Mountain feathers’—dry shavings—made that morning before we left our previous camp.
1977 H. O'Hagan School-marm Tree xv. 214 Clay turned quickly and expertly to make a fire..chipping with his axe from the trunk of a dead standing spruce a long splinter, making shavings from it with his knife—‘Rocky Mountain feathers’ they were called.
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