plume
Meaning
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- A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
- A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
- A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
- The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
- Short for plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
- Things resembling a feather.
- Things resembling a feather.
- Things resembling a feather.
- Things resembling a feather.
- Things resembling a feather.
- Things resembling a feather.
- Things resembling a feather.
- Things resembling a feather.
Synonyms
sediment plume
arrange feathers
dress feathers
egret-plume
jet efflux
upright bar
plume of contaminants
contamination plume
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpluːm/
Etymology
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.
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