white feather

noun

A feather of a white colour, used to signify surrender.

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Meanings

nounwhite feather (plural white feathers)

plural white feathers

  1. A feather of a white colour, used to signify surrender.

    There was nothing of the white feather about little Alfred.

    1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 21
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