white feather

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   a symbol of cowardice

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Questions about white feather

What does white feather mean?

white feather means "a symbol of cowardice".

Is white feather a common word?

white 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.