depluming

On cutting up a fowl, they discovered the smell to have been occasioned by its being dressed with out any other preparation than that of depluming.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

On cutting up a fowl, they discovered the smell to have been occasioned by its being dressed with out any other preparation than that of depluming.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

The exposure and _depluming_ (to borrow a good word from the fine old rhetorician, Fuller,) of the leading 'humbugs' of the age -- _that_ was announced as the regular business of the journal: and the only question which remained to be settled was, the more or less of the degree; and also one other question, even more interesting still, viz. -- whether personal abuse were intermingled with literary.

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

But the Moon and the Huntress are surely not the creations of Pagans, nor indebted to them for anything but the murderous depluming which Pagan mythology has operated upon all that is in earth or in the waters that are under the earth.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

On cutting up a fowl, they discovered the smell to have been occasioned by its being dressed with out any other preparation than that of depluming.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797