featherless

adj

Etymology: From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.

1. Having no feathers.

   “He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.”

   “[…] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.”