The word "feathers" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the fluffy or soft materials that make up the exterior of birds. For example, "The peacock spread its beautiful feathers."
Madonna ruffled feathers during the Guy Ritchie years by boasting about hunting pheasant: "I like being one of the chaps.
Bad news, then, for anyone thinking of opening a theme park, but good news for the job prospects of anyone plucking feathers at an effects workshop.
A disc of feathers around its face gives it the piercing gaze and acute hearing of an owl.
All that remained was a skinny carcass of bedraggled wet feathers on a patch of bilberries, the tag's antenna sticking into the air.
The Mercury music prize, awarded by industry experts to the best UK album of the year, ruffled feathers in 2013 with a shortlist that was even safer than usual.
Victorians used to pursue it for hat feathers – its legacy is as a founding reason for why the RSPB was created.
You'll still say it wasn't the feathers, you just saw the light.
There, standing out among them was a slim bird with black feathers and a clean white bib: a ring ouzel!
Then at the helm of the City Growth Commission, this respected economist, a Mancunian, was clearly giving the devolutionary agenda serious thought, ruffling feathers by suggesting the 4 million-strong populations of Greater Manchester and Merseyside get over their differences and become the mightier "Manpool".
It was hard to bear the white feathers and specially getting one from Ellen.
The angel has wings with incredibly realistic feathers: it looks as if, in this early painting that he did in Florence in around 1472-1475 when he was still in his 20s, Leonardo is already thinking about the possibility of human flight.
