feather boa
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈfɛðər ˈboʊə/
:
boa de plumas
- In the same trunk, she found a white feather boa, which she tossed around her shoulders.
- wear a feather boa
- pink feather boa
- red feather boa
You could come into the living room naked with a neon headdress and a feather boa, and they may still just say, hey, can you pass the remote?
- You could come into the living room naked with a neon headdress and a feather boa, and they may still just say, hey, can you pass the remote?
- But The thing is, is the guys who are giving it were like weird dweeby guys with like feather Boas and top hats.
Examples
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A feather boa always complements a beautiful face and makes the model feel luxurious and happy.
Academic text (1995) -
My mother, at some distance from him, wore her tap dance best: a water-logged feather boa and silver stockings.
Fiction book (1992) -
As she did, she realized she was dancing alone, her arms holding only the white feather boa.
Fiction book (1993) -
Instead of trying to hide it, I wrap it around me like a feather boa.
Fiction book (2002) -
One even sported a feather boa that had certainly seen better days.
Fiction book (1995) -
The feather boa tickled her neck.
Fiction book (2002) -
Women were also able to exploit glamorous elements such as flowers worn in the hair, tube tops, and feather boas.
Academic text (1999) -
Twenty girls in feather boas prancing around like circus ponies.
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With a resolute sigh, she closed the heavy lid of the gramophone, slipped the feather boa from her shoulders, then went downstairs to her bedroom.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the party, she draped a colorful feather boa around her shoulders to complete her glamorous outfit.
Synonyms
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4.5
A long thin scarf of feathers or fur worn around the neck for fashion
1
9.9
A long narrow scarf worn over the shoulders, often made of fur
How Fluffy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'boa' is a decorative scarf and 'feather' specifies the material, so a 'feather boa' is simply a scarf made of feathers. This straightforward noun + modifier structure is cross-linguistically common and readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Feather boa may come from a simple picture: a long, soft line of feathers wrapped around the neck like a snake, and the word boa suggests that long, snake-like shape. People wore these feather scarves to look bright and stylish, so today feather boa means 'a long, fluffy scarf used to look glamorous'.