Dust and Feather

Dust

Dust noun - Discarded or useless material.

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Feather and dust are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Feather" with "Dust", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: dusty, dusted, dusting, duster

Feather noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

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Dust and feather are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Dust" with "Feather", this nouns are similar.

silver	silver dust	silver feather
green	green dust	green feather
black	black dust	black feather
glowing	glowing dust	glowing feather
Other adjectives: falling, mysterious, last, literal, pink, floating, purple.

Although the most common variation of this is when a group of people/stuff is at a ledge and a light feather/dust powder lands and it simply breaks apart instantly (and painfully), it's not only restricted to those cases.

Source: The Last Straw
When the Treble-Makers are all in the hot-tub, the TV is showing a porn movie, with two women in their underwear, one of them is using a feather-duster to dust a lamp.

Source: Funny Background Event / Live-Action Films
Two notable occasions when it is played straight: the body of the real Fai dissolves into dust when the feather is removed and Fei Wong tells us that real!

Source: Manga / Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

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