panache

Meaning

  1. (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
  2. (figuratively, uncountable) Flamboyance, energetic style or action.

Frequency

40k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pəˈnæʃ/
Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.

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