Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of or covered with feathers.
- adjective Resembling a feather or plume.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a feather; feathery.
- Plumed; adorned with plumes.
- Plumaged; feathered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered or adorned with
plumes , or as with plumes;feathery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or covered with or abounding in plumes
- adjective adorned with feathers or plumes
- adjective resembling a plume
Etymologies
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Examples
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And thanks to Stewart's plumy voice and dramatic personae, even a casual remark or gesture has import.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010
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And thanks to Stewart's plumy voice and dramatic personae, even a casual remark or gesture has import.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010
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And thanks to Stewart's plumy voice and dramatic personae, even a casual remark or gesture has import.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010
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And thanks to Stewart's plumy voice and dramatic personae, even a casual remark or gesture has import.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010
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And in that look is the end of innocence, of benevolent patronage, an era when strolling architects and plumy journalists can gossip complacently about how they have arranged a good time for the rest of us.
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And thanks to Stewart's plumy voice and dramatic personae, even a casual remark or gesture has import.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo Fern Siegel 2010
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Black fur covered his pointed ears, wide side ruff, and back, all the way to his plumy tail, but he had a triangle of white over his eyes and muzzle that extended down his chest.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Black fur covered his pointed ears, wide side ruff, and back, all the way to his plumy tail, but he had a triangle of white over his eyes and muzzle that extended down his chest.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Shaped like a BBC documentary and narrated by Tom Baker in suitably plumy, Masterpiece Theatre tones, Britain USA sends the duo on a rapid-fire tour of the states.
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He was a schmoozer, speaking in plumy tones as he negotiated during long phone calls with the vendors.
Office Politics Katie Norton 2010
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She sent her mind out from the hall to walk in the night, which was not wet, yet had a bloom of rain in the air, so that the lights shone with a plumy beam and all roads seemed to run to a soft white cliff.
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 16, 2009