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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deplume .
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Examples
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Sissy went out back and gathered feathers where her mama had recently deplumed a hen.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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See this fellow, rage in his face and heart, carrying by the legs his cock, deplumed and dead.
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878
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Doctor are also baulked of their revenge, just as they are getting over the preliminary pains and vexations; and, while pluming themselves with anticipated honours, are suddenly deplumed into
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Where is now the enthusiastic Gironde, where the volcanic mountain, the fiery, and eloquent Mirabeau, the wily Brissot, the atheistic Lequinios, the remorseless Marat, the bloody St. Just, and the chief of the deplumed and fallen legions of equality?
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. John Carr 1802
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