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Webster 1913 Edition
Deplumation
1.
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Bp. Stillingfleet
2.
(Med.)
A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
Thomas.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deplumation
DEPLUMATION
,Noun.
1.
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.2.
A tumor of the eye-lids with loss of hair.Definition 2024
deplumation
deplumation
English
Noun
deplumation (uncountable)
- The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
- Bishop Stillingfleet
- […] through the violence of her moulting, or deplumation, she comes into this earthly body deprived of that blessed life which she before enjoyed.
- Bishop Stillingfleet
- (medicine) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
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