featherlight

Meanings

adjectivefeatherlight (not comparable)

alternativenot comparableAlternative form of feather-light.
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Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherché produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats.
2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3

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