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Marabou   /mˈɛrəbˌu/   Listen
Marabou

noun
1.
Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments.  Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou stork, marabout.
2.
The downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments.





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"Marabou" Quotes from Famous Books



... of fatness, their incredible, caravaning, lumbaginous fatness! There was a new chin to her mother. Gone was the old pulled-in waistline, but the old love of finery was out on her hat in ostrich plumes, a boa of marabou lending further elegance. And her father! He was somehow behind himself, slanting out from neck to quite a bulge of abdomen, then receding again to legs that caught her throat with a sense of their being too thin to sustain him. The fringe of hair that showed beneath his ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


Words linked to "Marabou" :   Leptoptilus, genus Leptoptilus, plume, plumage, feather, stork


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