What is to lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey called?
deplume — To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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