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Plumed

adjective
1.
Having or covered with or abounding in plumes.  Synonym: plumy.  "White-plumed egrets"
2.
Having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft.  Synonyms: plumate, plumose.
3.
(of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume.  Synonym: crested.


Plume

verb
(past & past part. plumed; pres. part. pluming)
1.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge.  Antonym: undercharge.
2.
Be proud of.  Synonyms: congratulate, pride.
3.
Deck with a plume.
4.
Clean with one's bill.  Synonym: preen.
5.
Form a plume.  "The engine was pluming black smoke"
6.
Dress or groom with elaborate care.  Synonyms: dress, preen, primp.



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"Plumed" Quotes from Famous Books



... we found pearls. There came to us singing a great canoe and in it a plumed cacique with his wife and daughters. All wore twists of pearls around throat and arms. They gave them freely for red, blue and green beads, which to them were indeed rubies, sapphires and emeralds.—Whence came the pearls? It seemed from the ...
— 1492 • Mary Johnston
... looked at the affair while our invalid was recovering. We all plumed ourselves on our excellent good sense—and (ah, poor stupid human wretches!) we were all fatally wrong. So far from the mischief being at an end, the mischief had only begun. The true results of the robbery at Browndown were yet to show ...
— Poor Miss Finch • Wilkie Collins
... sure enough, about half-way down the mountain, nearing the first fortification, the long-plumed double line of Nala's warriors was rushing down to battle, the bright light of the morning glancing on their spears. Afterwards we discovered that the reason of their delay was that they had been stopped by a river in flood, and could not reach the mountain crest ...
— Maiwa's Revenge - The War of the Little Hand • H. Rider Haggard
... with moonshine, whenever he could get it. Certain it is, that the poetry which flowed from him had a smack of all these dainties. The sixth of the party was a young man of haughty mien, and sat somewhat apart from the rest, wearing his plumed hat loftily among his elders, while the fire glittered on the rich embroidery of his dress and gleamed intensely on the jewelled pommel of his sword. This was the Lord de Vere, who, when at home, was said to spend much of his time in the burial vault of his ...
— The Great Stone Face - And Other Tales Of The White Mountains • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... in a solemn tone from the window of the apartment; and turning towards it in terror, Rose beheld the armed and plumed head of the soldier who had come so opportunely to their assistance, and who, supported by his arms, had raised himself so high as to be able to look into the interior of ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott


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