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I don't think a plumey hat in SF/F circles qualifies as "unique."
New Author Look? jimhines 2010
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Now word comes down the plumey pike that the wound we opened in the lower epidermis of the Earth might not be closed until a relief well is finished sometime in August, so perhaps we should accept the fact that the Gulf is short-term doomed and start to seek out the Brightsides of the BP Oil Spill.
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Now word comes down the plumey pike that the wound we opened in the lower epidermis of the Earth might not be closed until a relief well is finished sometime in August, so perhaps we should accept the fact that the Gulf is short-term doomed and start to seek out the Brightsides of the BP Oil Spill.
Will Durst: The Brightside of the BP Oil Spill Will Durst 2010
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Now word comes down the plumey pike that the wound we opened in the lower epidermis of the Earth might not be closed until a relief well is finished sometime in August, so perhaps we should accept the fact that the Gulf is short-term doomed and start to seek out the Brightsides of the BP Oil Spill.
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Just a couple of weeks ago the astilbe was putting on a plumey show.
Garden Bloggers Design Workshop- Under The Deck « Fairegarden 2008
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And look at her poor tail ... last week, it was all lush and plumey.
weeme Diary Entry weeme 2003
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At one evening home wedding where this blue and gold color scheme was used, the stalks of plumey golden rod seemed to be growing naturally along the stair rail; they were held in place at the uprights.
Entertaining Made Easy Emily Rose Burt
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Another fern developed from the Boston is _Whitmani_, in which the fronds are not so long but the foliage is so finely divided that it gives a decided plumey effect.
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But he didn't trot with his head up and his big plumey tail carried proudly as is usual with him.
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Way down on the very tip end of Tiger Lily's plumey tail about two hairs wagged.
Fairy Prince and Other Stories Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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