contour feather

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   feathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape

   Broaderfeather

Questions about contour feather

What does contour feather mean?

contour feather means "feathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape".

Is contour feather a common word?

contour feather is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.