one of the many soft light parts covering a bird's bodya peacock feathera feather pillow (= one containing feathers)
Idioms
a feather in your cap
an action that you can be proud of
This idiom comes from the Native American custom of giving a feather to somebody who had been very brave in battle.
more at birds of a feather (flock together) at bird, you could have knocked me down with a feather at knockverb, ruffle somebody's/a few feathers at ruffleverb, smooth somebody's ruffled feathers at smoothverb