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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In poultry, and hence in other birds, the plumage-marking on the shoulder or bend of the wing; distinctive coloration of the lesser coverts collectively: thus, in the black-breasted red gamecock the wing-bows are crimson. See cuts under
Agelæus and sea-eagle.
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