plumed

adj

plumed

adj

/pluːmd/

1

Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.

  • O now for euer / Farewell the tranquile mind, farewell content: / Farewell the plumed troope, and the big warres: / That makes ambition vertue: [...]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], pages 51–52:
  • Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song, / No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain, / No plumed and plaided clans those hills among, / Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?1854, William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn:
Derived terms
beplumed, emplumed, implumed, many-plumed moth, plumed disseminule, plumed partridge, plumed thistle, plumed whistling duck, unplumed, white-plumed honeyeater

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