Catchword: tapirage

Filed Under: English, Animals, Insects, & Birds

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Macaws and other parrots supplied most of the plumage, but that of other species—Muscovy ducks, flamingos, egrets and the petite paradise tanager—was also prized. Some colors were produced artificially in a process known as tapirage. Birds with, say, green and blue feathers were plucked and then rubbed with frog secretions; the feathers would then grow back in an unnatural yellow-orange hue.

Article or Document Title:
“Objects From a Long-Vanished Peru, Parading All Their Magnificent Plumage” (URL)

Author:
Karen Rosenberg

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
New York Times

Date of Publication:
July 5, 2008

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