plume
noun
a feather.
have plumed
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present perfectof plume.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The fact, then, that Burns owed much to the tradition of vernacular poetry in Scotland and especially to his immediate predecessors is no new discovery, however recent critics may have plumed themselves upon it.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
One, whom, instead of banishing a day, You should have plumed of all his borrowed honours, And let him see what abject things they are, Whom princes often love without desert.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
True, I might have plumed myself on my position as a man of the world, but Woloda excelled me even in that.
From Youth by C. J. Hogarth
