A feather duster is a handle tipped with soft feathers for dusting. Flick a feather duster.
It mostly moves dust into the air, where it settles again an hour later. A feather duster is best on things too delicate for a cloth, and useless elsewhere.
1nounfeather dusterA handle tipped with soft feathers for dusting.
“The feather duster reached the top of the bookcase and nothing else.”
feather duster is a tool.
From feather + duster.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Cleaning & Housework