displume
Americanverb (used with object)
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to strip of plumes; deplume.
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to strip of honors.
Etymology
Origin of displume
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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