befeatherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

befeather (三人称単数 現在形 befeathers, 現在分詞 befeathering, 過去形および過去分詞形 befeathered)

1. (transitive) To deck or cover with feathers.
   • 1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean: on Discovery, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, pp. 223-224,^[1]

     The men were not ill made, but they disfigured themselves with grease and coarse paint; they were of a dark copper-colour, with lank black hair, which they tied in a knot behind; but they so bepowdered, or rather befeathered it with down, that the colour was hardly discernible […]

   • 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pink and White Tyranny, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Chapter 25, p. 291,^[2]

     In fact, Grace found it very difficult to find a milliner who, if left to her own devices, would not befeather and beflower her past all self-recognition, giving to her that generally betousled and fly-away air which comes straight from the demi-monde of Paris.

   • 2001, Leonard Clark, The Rivers Ran East:

     They were making a human fetish doll out of clay, painting and befeathering it, offering yuca to it.