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单词 bull's feather
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bull's feather
bull's feather n. Obsolete a horn, the mark of cuckoldry.
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1704 Swetnam's Arraignm. Lewd, Idle, Froward & Unconstant Women (new ed.) 167 There's many an honest man hath worn the bull's feather.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxiii. 202 They may very probably adorn, as well as bestow, the bull's feather.
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