What does in high feather mean?

in high feather

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

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"Next Saturday that come, I pitched the cart on the same pitch, and I was in very high feather indeed, keeping ’em laughing the whole of the time, and getting off the goods briskly."
"I ascended to the pilot-house in high feather, and very proud to be semi-officially a member of the executive family of so fast and famous a boat."
"He was in very high feather."

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