to plume
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6.4
- verb
- /pluːm/
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adornar con plumas
- These outcasts trap otters, shoot alligators and plume birds, selling skins, hides, and plumes to dealers who go to them secretly, or through Indians who often help and never betray them.
- a plumed hat
- a plumed pen
- a red-plumed hat
Examples
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On a table before him was a helmet of hardened leather plumed with a long, white kagga tail.
Fiction book (1990) -
Glancing over her shoulder, Temple saw the rider's plumed shako and blue uniform bearing an officer's epaulets.
Fiction book (1994) -
His fancy plumed helmet on the lower left has fallen off, but sits there quite neatly on the ground.
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Real feathers plumed from their helmets, whose visors opened to reveal individual faces enameled with the intense expressions of combat.
Fiction book (1996) -
The other figures in the scene are engaged in traditional roles: drummers, clapping women, and the herbalist, dressed in a leopard skin with a plumed headdress, who appears to be intoning a chant.
Academic text (1997) -
She wanted to plume her hat with colorful feathers for the costume party.
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The artist decided to plume the edges of the canvas with beautiful feathers.
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At the parade, the dancers began to plume their costumes with vibrant plumes.
Synonyms
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9.4
To put feathers on an arrow to help it fly straight
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9.8
Add feathers to an arrow or a costume
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3.7
To grow feathers, as young birds do
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
A plant that lives for several years with thick yellow flower spikes and blue-green divided leaves
A tall American annual with hairy stems, long red flower spikes, and seeds used as cereal
A perennial plant with leathery blue-green divided leaves and thick yellow flower spikes
An annual plant with broad rounded leaves and long thin clusters of red hanging flowers
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb plume originally meant to add a plume, from Latin pluma 'soft feather'. So to plume something is to decorate it with a feather.