pinfeather

“Long Live the Seersucker” was the headline, with a subhead that promised Mr. Ignatius was championing “a revival of cream-colored linen and balmy pinfeather.”

Lighten Up: Rediscovering The Summer Suit 2009

I've killed my share of Wisconsin turkeys and have never encountered a pinfeather.

Wait. Why was this duck taken to the hospital? Ann Althouse 2007

Not so much as a snowy pinfeather tickled their eyes.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

His keen teeth had not so much as ruffled its pinfeather plumage.

Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

Just to show how one of those pinfeather Passions may be shunted onto

Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

Just to show how one of those pinfeather Passions may be shunted onto

Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather.

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

He not only withdraws all objections to the nuptials, but allows he'll make the pinfeather sport an 'Abby full partners in the Sunflower.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

Although Abby done threatens him with a gun-play to make him lead her to the altar that time her old paw creases him, an 'he begins to wax low-sperited about wedlock, still, the pinfeather party's enamoured of Abby an' wropped up in her.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

On the level! now, 'goes on Texas to Black Jack as he pulls him off to a corner an' whispers so the pinfeather party don't hear; 'on the level, Jack! ain't it my dooty -- me who saveys what he's ag'inst -- to go warn this victim ag'in matrimony in all its horrors?'

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885