v. [f. BE- 6 + FEATHER sb.] trans. To deck with feathers. Hence Befeathered ppl. a.

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1611.  Cotgr., Emplumer … befeather … to dresse with feathers.

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1635.  Quarles, Emblems, III. i. 33 (D.). Her dove-befeathered prison.

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c. 1850.  trans. V. Hugo’s Hunchback, I. i. 1. Some bedizened and befeathered embassy.

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