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cock-feather
ˈcock-feather Archery. [f. cock n.1 attrib. = ‘top, sticking up’, as in cock-sheaf, etc.] The upper one of the three feathers on an arrow, generally of a different colour from the other two, so as to indicate at sight how to place the arrow on the string.1545 R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 132 It standeth...
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The Black Feather
The white feather came to mean cowardice in the days of the cockpit, because a white feather in a game-cock was the sign of a cross-breed in birds, and suggested that the cock was no good for fighting.
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Zhang Yi (actor)
Zhang Yi (; born 17 February 1978 in Harbin) is a Chinese actor best known for his roles in films Dearest, Cock and Bull and Operation Red Sea and television series Soldiers Sortie, My Chief and My Regiment and Feather Flies to the Sky.
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cockhye
cockhye Sense uncertain: ? Some kind of arrow: cf. cock-feather.1598 Chapman Blinde begger Wks. 1873 I. 36, I saw Cupid shooting a cockhye into your face, and gazing after his arrow it fell into mine eye.
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Benjamin Marshall (painter)
Two pictures of fighting cocks, exhibited in 1812, were engraved in mezzotint by Charles Turner in the same year with the titles of The Cock in Feather and The Trimm'd Cock.
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Appenzeller Spitzhauben
Characteristics
The Spitzhauben is a light chicken: hens weigh little more than a kilogram, and cock birds barely over . The Spitzhauben variety, meaning "pointed bonnet", has a V-comb and feather crests in males and females.
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Alexandra (wet fly)
The underwing is typically strips of red ibis or goose primary feather. The fly is hackled wet fly style with brown or black hen or cock hackle.
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Hackle
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: (feather bonnet only - drummers and drum major): White
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: (Pipers only) Black cock Seaforth Highlanders (feather bonnet only - drummers and drum major): White
Seaforth Highlanders (Pipers only) Black cock feather
No. 9 Commando and
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White feather
is a coward, an allusion to a game cock, where having a white feather, is a proof he is not of the true game breed". Notes
External links
Order of the White Feather
Peace Pledge Union
The Order of the White Feather.
Symbols
Feather, white
Men in history
Propaganda
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Carlo Mazzone-Clementi
Often cast for his talents as a mime, he appeared as "The Cock" in the world premiere of Sean O'Casey's Cock-A-Doodle Dandy in New York in 1958. He performed at a number of International Mime Festivals held in the 1970s and 1980s, and played in Birds of a Feather with the Dell'Arte Company at the
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Grey Ghost Streamer
Wing- white bucktail, golden pheasant crest, peacock herl
Wing- olive-grey saddle hackle, golden pheasant crest
Shoulder- white and black striped body feather from silver pheasant
Cheeks- jungle cock
References
Streamer patterns
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Mother Feather
Mother Feather is an American rock band from New York City. she described as a "pop cock rock catharsis", inspiring her to form a band that was "bigger than her everyday self", "harnessed big feelings", "embodied
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Opaline budgerigar mutation
Historical notes
In 1933 A Brown of Kilmarnock, Scotland, bred what was described as a 'pied' Cobalt hen from a perfectly normal Skyblue cock and Mauve In birds, the cock has two X chromosomes and the hen has one X and one Y chromosome.
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Émile Grémaux
Grémaux was the Champion of the Northern France in the weight of feather-cock in 1914.
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Booted Bantam
Feather-footed bantams have been present in Europe for hundreds of years; birds of this type are pictured in the works of Ulisse Aldrovandi and Aelbert Albin's description of 1738 says of the bantam cock "... from the Thighs grew long stiff Feathers reaching beyond his Knees two Inches, which they call
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