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  • verb Present participle of plume.

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Examples

  • He says: "One thing I must observe, which, I think, wants rectifying, that is, their pluming pride when adjoined to apparent poverty, -- no uncommon case!"

    The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various

  • Kitchen and bathroom remodeling can be a very costly affair as it involves a lot of subcontracting such as pluming and electricians. home remodeling then please drop by my site!

    unknown title 2009

  • Kitchen and bathroom remodeling can be a very costly affair as it involves a lot of subcontracting such as pluming and electricians. home remodeling then please drop by my site!

    unknown title 2009

  • The thruster changes are required to avoid "pluming" the panels with exhaust gases.

    Spaceflight Now 2009

  • Annie took a final puff from her cigarette, blue smoke pluming from her nostrils, then stubbed it out in the butt-brimming glass ashtray.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Annie took a final puff from her cigarette, blue smoke pluming from her nostrils, then stubbed it out in the butt-brimming glass ashtray.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • SANTIAGO, Chile -- A volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupted for a second day Sunday, shooting out pumice stones and pluming a cloud of ash six miles (10 kilometers) high and three miles (five kilometers) wide.

    Volcano Billows Giant Plume For Second Day In Chile The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Annie took a final puff from her cigarette, blue smoke pluming from her nostrils, then stubbed it out in the butt-brimming glass ashtray.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Turn off the refrigerator, the AC, get rid of the ice, move the pluming to a hole in the back yard, turn off the water, health care ha!, shrink your living space, going out to eat means taking a hunting trip etc etc.

    Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Annie took a final puff from her cigarette, blue smoke pluming from her nostrils, then stubbed it out in the butt-brimming glass ashtray.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

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