featherwork

English

Etymology

From feather +‎ work.

Noun

featherwork (countable and uncountable, plural featherworks)

  1. (uncountable) The working of feathers into a cultural artifact.
    Synonym: featherworking
  2. (countable) A cultural artifact made with feathers.
    • 2007 June 29, Holland Cotter, “Portugal, Conquering and Also Conquered”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 January 2025:
      With filigreed Kongo ivories, gilded Qing astrolabes, Brazilian featherwork, Sri Lankan rock-crystal, mother-of-pearl Mughal inlay and life-size Portuguese carvings of angels and saints, it has something even for someone who has seen everything before.
    • 2023, Tim Birkhead, Birds and Us, Penguin Books, page 149:
      The importation of New World featherworks into Europe was a journey of dilution, degradation and eventual loss of meaning - a banal Disneyfication of indigenous dignity.
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