plume

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
2. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
3. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
4. The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
5. Short for plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
6. Things resembling a feather.
7. Things resembling a feather.
8. Things resembling a feather.
9. Things resembling a feather.
10. Things resembling a feather.
11. Things resembling a feather.
12. Things resembling a feather.
13. Things resembling a feather.

Verb

1. To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
2. Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figurative), to prepare for (something).
3. To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.
4. To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
5. (obsolete) To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
6. To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
7. Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.

Concepts

panache

plume

plumet

crinière

aile

empennage

volant

panache asthénosphérique

panache mantellique

panache de particules sédimentaires

aigrette

panache de contamination

enorgueillir

fier

fierté

féliciter

orgueil

hameçon

toison

voler

plumeau

nuage de fumée

plumage

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpluːm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Late Middle English plum, plume (“feather; plumage”), from Anglo-Norman plum, plume and Middle French, Old French plume, plome (“plumage; down used for stuffing pillows, etc.; pen, quill”) (modern French plume (“feather; pen, quill; pen nib; (figurative) writer”)), and directly from its etymon Latin plūma (“feather; plumage; down”) (compare Late Latin plūma (“pen, quill”)), from Proto-Italic *plouksmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly; to flow; to run; to flap with hands; to splash”).
The English word is a doublet of pluma.