featherless
adjUK /ˈfɛðələs/ · US /ˈfɛðəɹləs/
Etymology From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.
1
Having no feathers.
- He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 128:
- […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.1929 June, Robert E. Howard, “Rattle of Bones”, in Weird Tales:
- Derived terms
- featherless biped, featherlessness
- Related terms
- flightless, furless, hairless, wingless