displume

[dis-ploom]

verb (used with object)

displumed, displuming 

1. to strip of plumes; deplume.

2. to strip of honors.

Word History and Origins

Origin of displume¹

1470–80; dis- ¹ + plume; deplume

Example Sentences

No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced,—and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them.

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