panache
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From Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennaccio, from Latin pinnaculum.
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panache (countable and uncountable; plural panaches)
- (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
- 1896 — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, Chapter 4
- I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
- 1896 — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, Chapter 4
- (uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
- 1894 — Kate Chopin, Bayou Folk, At the 'Cadian Ball
- One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.
- 1894 — Kate Chopin, Bayou Folk, At the 'Cadian Ball
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- (ornament on a helmet): hackle, plume, plumage
- (flamboyant style): dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve
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ornamental helmet plume
flamboyant style or action
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From Italian pennaccio
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panache m. (plural panaches)
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- (flamboyant style): flamboyance, verve, brio, bravoure
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French
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panache m. inv.
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