plume
English
Etymology
Late Middle English, via Old French plume from Latin pluma (“down, feather”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːm
Noun
plume (plural plumes)
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- A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- wings […] of many a coloured plume
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
- The first thing that struck Manfred's eyes was a group of his servants endeavouring to raise something that appeared to him a mountain of sable plumes.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
- A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
- 1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy
- his high plume, that nodded o'er his head
- 1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer's Boy
- A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- ambitious to win from me some plume
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- An area over which (or a space into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
- The pollutant creates a contaminant plume within an aquifer.
- After the explosion, a plume of smoke could be seen in the sky for miles around.
- An upward spray of water or mist.
- (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
- (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
- A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
Derived terms
Translations
feather
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furry, curved tail of certain dogs
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cluster of feathers
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token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward
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area over which (or space into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud
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upward spray
geology: upwelling of molten material
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astronomy: arc of glowing material
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Verb
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- (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
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- pluming her wings among the breezy bowers
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- (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
- He plumes himself on his skill.
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- To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
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- To adorn with feathers or plumes.
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- Farewell the plumed troop.
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- To form a plume.
- Smoke plumed from his pipe then slowly settled towards the floor.
- To write; to pen.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
- We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it.
Translations
to preen and arrange feathers
to congratulate oneself proudly
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to form a plume
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to adorn with plumes
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to write; to pen
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French
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Etymology
From Old French plume, from Latin plūma.
Pronunciation
Noun
plume f (plural plumes)
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
plume
- inflection of plumer:
Further reading
plume on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “plume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Etymology
Noun
plume f (plural plumis)
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, from Latin prūnum.
Pronunciation
Noun
plūme f
Declension
Declension of plūme (weak)
Derived terms
Old French
Etymology
Noun
plume oblique singular, f (oblique plural plumes, nominative singular plume, nominative plural plumes)
Descendants
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