an indication of cowardice: chiefly in show the white feather
Origin of white feather
from the notion that a white feather in a gamecock's tail shows bad breeding, hence cowardicewhite feather
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white feather
noun
A sign of cowardice.
Origin of white feather
From the belief that a gamecock with a white feather in its tail was a poor fighterTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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