plume
noun
a feather.
had been pluming
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past perfect progressiveof plume.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He felt small and mean and despised, and the talents he had been pluming himself on an hour before had now shrunk to windlestraws.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
And I had been pluming myself upon the completeness of my hollisterization!
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
And I had been pluming myself on getting the better of him!
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
But he had five thousand pounds at stake, a fortune on which he had been pluming himself since noon; it was no time for hesitation.
From The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman
The last had been his roughest year and he had sunk a little more deeply just at the time when June had been pluming herself for flight from such depths forever.
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox
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