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What does preened mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of preen
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She glided like a queen into the Whitney Gala on Monday night and watched as hot young things preened and posed in her gowns.
The police last week in Sunderland preened themselves on how good intelligence had enabled them to spot and control the troublemakers.
He primped and preened for the cameras like a Hollywood diva.
Accordingly, even though birds without uropygial glands preened at the same rate as birds with glands, the former may have suffered more breakage of feather barbules.
The coiffed and preened diners look up from such offerings as wild Alaskan sockeye salmon and goat-cheese tart.
A whole host of dandy dogs and preened pooches converged on Oulder Hill Community School over the weekend to strut their stuff.

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