Brazilian plume

Gender received little mention in coverage of the Brazilian presidential election when the top two candidates were women.

It mounted straight as a plume for a little way, until it met the cool air of evening which was beginning to fall.

Each tiny tree was a plume of leaves; the rows stretched out to the hilltop, and over.

Only the day before he died, he had said this to Father Francis, a young Brazilian monk, to whom he was greatly attached.

Brazilian bean; the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, indigenous to America.

Called "Brazilian bean," because it resembled a bean then known in France by that name.