plumed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pluːmd/
• Rhymes: -uːmd

Adjective

plumed (not comparable)

1. Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], pages 51–52:

     O now for euer / Farewell the tranquile mind, farewell content: / Farewell the plumed troope, and the big warres: / That makes ambition vertue: [...]

   • 1854, William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn:

     Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song, / No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain, / No plumed and plaided clans those hills among, / Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?

Derived terms

• many-plumed moth
• plumed disseminule
• plumed partridge
• plumed thistle
• plumed whistling duck
• white-plumed honeyeater

 

Translations

having or decorated with a plume or plumes

• Irish: eiteach
• Portuguese: emplumado

Verb

plumed

1. simple past and past participle of plume

Anagrams

• dumple, lumped