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The peacock has colorful plumage.
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The birds are masters of camouflage, growing snow-white plumage in winter and mottled brown feathers in summer.
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Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Though no longer in office, his plumage casts a shadow over the GOP, complicating the debate.
—William Inboden, Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2022
And what more fitting emotion for a young teenager in 2024 than Anxiety, a jittery figure that looks like a Looney Tunes character put through a laundry wringer, all teeth and bug eyes, crowned by a tuft of messy orange plumage and voiced by Maya Hawke with nervous energy to burn.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
But the real-life pink birds have been largely missing from the Sunshine State since the early 1900s, when hunters nearly drove them to extinction in the quest for their fashionable—and highly profitable—plumage.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024
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Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Though no longer in office, his plumage casts a shadow over the GOP, complicating the debate.
—William Inboden, Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2022
And what more fitting emotion for a young teenager in 2024 than Anxiety, a jittery figure that looks like a Looney Tunes character put through a laundry wringer, all teeth and bug eyes, crowned by a tuft of messy orange plumage and voiced by Maya Hawke with nervous energy to burn.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
But the real-life pink birds have been largely missing from the Sunshine State since the early 1900s, when hunters nearly drove them to extinction in the quest for their fashionable—and highly profitable—plumage.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024
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“Plumage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plumage. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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plumage
noun
plum·age
ˈplü-mij 
: the feathers of a bird
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