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white feather
noun
- a symbol of cowardice.
white feather
noun
- a symbol or mark of cowardice
- show the white featherto act in a cowardly manner
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white feather1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white feather1
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Idioms and Phrases
- show the white feather, to behave in a cowardly manner.
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Example Sentences
Around her throat was a white feather boa, while her features were half concealed by the veil she wore.
Three more civilians, wearing the white-feather symbol on their overcoats, advanced toward Winfree.
He took the little white feather from his hatbrim and attached it to Winfree's tattered, blood-stained tunic.
And, if you don't mind, I'll lend you a white feather hat and boa.
Instantly beside them on the forest floor they saw three soft white feather beds.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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