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Feathers used on hats
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marabou
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marabou \Mar`a*bou"\ (m[a^]r"[.a]b[=oo]"), n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.) A large black-and-white carrion-eating stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia ), esp. the African species ( Leptoptilus crumeniferus syn. Leptoptilos crumenifer ), whose downy under-wing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Marabou is a Swedish chocolate brand, first launched in 1916.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; downy under-wing feathers are used to trim garments [syn: marabout , marabou stork , Leptoptilus crumeniferus ] downy feathers of marabou storks used for trimming garments
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Leptoptilos crumeniferus'', a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging. 2 (context dated US Louisiana English) A person, five-eighths of whose ancestry is black; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe. ...
Usage examples of marabou.
Three months were necessary for cicatrization, but it was not until the capitulation of Marabou, at which place he was wounded, that the patient was returned to France.
The Dogbird began to lean with Cordavius and the Marabou, but the Flamingohawk, Shoebill and Limpkin remained adamant.
Farrell saw the marabou stork coming toward them, pacing softly, full of a carrion-eater's mincing exaltation.
Both Abe Abrahams, bursting with pride, his arm hooked through David's, and Dr Twenty-man-jones, tall and lugubrious as a marabou stork, were in the party around Centaine.
The storks strode knee-deep through the living carpet, marabous with horrific scaly heads, woolly-necked storks with scarves of fluffy white, saddle-bills with yellow medallions decorating" their long red and black beaks, all of them pecking hungrily at the living banquet.
Your shields will be red, your kilts the tails of the genet cat, your plumes the wing feathers of the marabou stork, and your headband the fur of the burrowing roole," Lobengula intoned, and then paused.