down feather

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   soft fine feathers

   Synonymsdown

   Broaderfeather

   Narrowerduck downgoose downswan's downplumule

Questions about down feather

What does down feather mean?

down feather means "soft fine feathers".

What is another word for down feather?

Close synonyms include down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is down feather a common word?

down 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.