feathermann.
One who deals in feathers or plumes.
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a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse i. ii. 5 in Poems (1638) And you sweet Featherman, whose ware though light Oreweighs your Conscience.
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 84 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) With Feathermen, and Perfumers.
1724 J. Arbuthnot Reasons against Bill for Examining Drugs 7 The several Trades and Professions which depend on ours..such as that of the Makers of Hearses, Coaches, Coffins, Epitaphs, and Bell-ropes; Feather-men and Bell-ringers.
1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xxi. 145 Mother was so busy with that feather-man, that it was of no use to ask her to hear me.
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