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n.
(used attributively) of articles of clothing made by the Eskimos from bird skins.
Quotations
1578
[They haue also some garments of feathers, being made of the cases of Foules, finely sowed and compact togither.]
1942
In winter, the islanders all wear two separate feather parkas, the inner one with feathers next to the body, the outer one with the feathers outside to shed the rain and snow.
1947
It didn't take me long to slip into my caribou-skin parka and feather pants. . . .