birdiness

Updated: May 2, 2025

There was a "birdiness" discernible on the outer man of each; for birdiness, as well as horseyness, writes its mark on the countenance and the attire. In the latter department there was a proclivity to thick pea-jackets and voluminous white comforters round the neck, though the day was springlike and the room stuffy.

Charles Maurice Davies - Mystic London:: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis