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单词 pennage
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pennagen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pennage.
Etymology: < Middle French, French pennage (a1525 as pennaige ) < penne pen n.3 + -age -age suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
Feathers, plumage; (also) a plume.
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1591 King James VI & I His Maiesties Poeticall Exercises sig. G1 v A healme Deckt with a pennage braue.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 287 This very bird..is..for the more part of her pennage [Fr. a la plupart de son pennage], blew, intermingled yet among with white and purple feathers.
1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 376 This nobleman's staff, lighting on the King's head-piece and taking away the pennage fastened to it with iron.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pennage, a term the same as plumage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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