plume
noun
a feather.
had plumed
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past perfectof plume.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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At first he had plumed himself upon his lucky escape that night, when he would have declared his love to her.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
He had come to recount an achievement which had plumed and reappareled a limping self-respect and he had expected congratulation.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
Like many another arrogant youth, he had plumed himself upon that fact, taking everything for granted.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Charles Clark Munn
Never had plumed knight of old a more dreadful antagonist.
From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
The idea of one who had plumed himself on his heroic self-sacrifice acting so like an ordinary mortal!
From From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe
