deplumation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

   “[…] through the violence of her moulting, or deplumation, she comes into this earthly body deprived of that blessed life which she before enjoyed.”

2. isim Loss of the eyelashes due to disease of the eyelids.

   “Systemic symptoms include headache, anorexia and sometimes nausea, vomiting, tinnitus and deafness, and deplumation or bleaching of the hair may occur.”

3. isim The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation.

   “From his headquarters in Minnesota and anxious to regain lost ground after his deplumation the summer before, General Terry proclaimed Gibbon's effort a "brilliant success."”