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panache

[puh-nash, -nahsh]

noun

  1. a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair.

    The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache.

  2. an ornamental plume of feathers, tassels, or the like, especially one worn on a helmet or cap.

  3. Architecture.,  the surface of a pendentive.



panache

/ -ˈnɑːʃ, pəˈnæʃ /

noun

  1. a dashing manner; style; swagger

    he rides with panache

  2. a feathered plume on a helmet

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of panache1

First recorded in 1545–55; variant (after French ) of pennache, from Middle French, from early Italian pennachio, from Late Latin pinnāculum, diminutive of pinna “wing”; identical in form with pinnāculum “roof gable, peak”; pinnacle
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Word History and Origins

Origin of panache1

C16: via French from Old Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum feather, from Latin pinna feather; compare Latin pinnāculum pinnacle
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Example Sentences

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Here’s hoping this long-awaited project makes it across the finish line with panache.

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So why wouldn’t we appreciate Chishiya’s honesty, his knack for cold calculation and overall panache?

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This media can’t be boring or overly wonky — it must speak in popular vernaculars with style and panache.

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He has no imagination in his criminality; no panache, no style, no originality.

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A showman who, as the author of “The Colored Museum,” was fully at home in more abstract realms of playwriting, he knew how to balance radical theatricality with more conventional storytelling panache.

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