deplumation

noun3

1. •
   The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

   • […] through the violence of her moulting, or deplumation, she comes into this earthly body deprived of that blessed life which she before enjoyed. — 1662
2. •
   Loss of the eyelashes due to disease of the eyelids.

   • Systemic symptoms include headache, anorexia and sometimes nausea, vomiting, tinnitus and deafness, and deplumation or bleaching of the hair may occur. — 1979
3. •
   (figurative) The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation.

   • From his headquarters in Minnesota and anxious to regain lost ground after his deplumation the summer before, General Terry proclaimed Gibbon's effort a "brilliant success." — 2002