Plumage in a sentence as a noun

No less useless than a peacock's plumage or an elephant seal's beach combat.

A peacock's plumage is rather arbitrary and weird, as well.

A luxury sports car could be a signal used to attract mates, like colorful plumage on a bird.

Much the same way that a peacock displays its colorful plumage to advertise its quality as a mate?

Two well-known examples are a peacock’s feathers and the brilliant red plumage of the male cardinal.

> ubiquitous, functional, and necessaryI think it's like the plumage of the male peacock.

Male birds also wear and display decorative plumage in order to attract mates, whereas female birds tend to be more drap.

That is, a peacock with better plumage might get more chances of reproducing due to sexual selection, but as long as he gets at least one chance of reproduction, he has not been selected against.

Every time a Facebook usage topic comes up there's the usual round of scorn usually backed up by a strange display of plumage involving the sentence, "I just deleted my facebook yesterday/last month/last year/never used it.

That's great!Every time a Facebook usage topic comes up there's the usual round of scorn usually backed up by a strange display of plumage involving the sentence, "I just deleted my facebook yesterday/last month/last year/never used it.

Plumage definitions

noun

the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

See also: feather plume