featherwork

plural featherworks

1. uncountableThe working of feathers into a cultural artifact.

   Synonyms: featherworking

2. countableA cultural artifact made with feathers.

   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.

   2023, Tim Birkhead, Birds and Us, Penguin Books, page 149

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   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.

   2007 June 29, Holland Cotter, “Portugal, Conquering and Also Conquered”, in New York Times