A nickname of Gen. Winfield Scott.

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1848.  General Scott, who, with all his military genius, has some peculiar personal qualifications…. He is known among the soldiers as old “Fuss and Feathers.”—N. Y. Herald, Feb. 1, p. 2/1.

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1860.  We have a magnificent turkey: Natanella says he ’s her beau, and that ‘Fuss-and-Feathers’ has more real style than any man who ever lived.—Knick. Mag., lvi. 359 (Oct.).

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1861.  

        I am General S—, whose deeds of fame
Have added fuss and feathers to my name.
Verses in the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 5, p. 4/1.    

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