Definitions for marabou

marabou mar·a·bou

Spelling: [mar-uh-boo]
IPA: /ˈmær əˌbu/

Marabou is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in marabou (aabmoru).

Definitions for marabou

noun

  1. any of three large storks of the genus Leptoptilus, of Africa or the East Indies, having soft, downy feathers under the wings and tail that are used for making a furlike trimming for women's hats and garments.
  2. one of the feathers.
  3. the trimming or material made of the feathers.
  4. thrown silk that can be dyed without being scoured.

Origin of marabou

1815-25; French marabout literally, marabout

Examples for marabou

Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition opens in Paris with cocktails and marabou.

But the marabou has forfeited all respect—converted it into nose-tint.

Clouds hovered over us, delicate and fleecy as the feathers of the marabou, and white and curly as the feathers of the ostrich.

A common white stork hasn't half the solid gravity of an adjutant or a marabou.

This being the case, there is a proverb about cleanliness that makes one wonder why the marabou stork doesn't wash himself.

After leaving the vley where the marabou were, we rode on and on across the shadeless, waterless, sun-baked plain.

They were worth to us about sixpence apiece, while marabou feathers are scarcely to be had for money in Europe.

Yes, there could be no doubt about it; they were marabou feathers, of perfect texture, and large size.

It was near to where I had seen the marabou on my way up, but these beautiful creatures had now all disappeared.

Word Value for marabou
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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