plumy

American  

[ploo-mee] / ˈplu mi /

adjective

plumier, plumiest

1. having plumes or feathers.

2. adorned with a plume or plumes.

   a plumy helmet.

3. plumelike or feathery.

---

plumy British  

/ ˈpluːmɪ /

adjective

1. plumelike; feathery

2. consisting of, covered with, or adorned with feathers

---

Etymology

Origin of plumy

First recorded in 1575–85; plume + -y ¹

Example Sentences

The golden retriever waits, “his tail a plumy metronome.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

Her character, Carol Barrett, is an agent for the F.B.I. whose reddish wig, plumy lashes and cavalcade of weary sighs and devastating deadpan stares are among the movie’s best special effects.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2015

They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He sprang to his feet, spurning the plumy grass.

From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel

It was a calm Summer evening of shadows blue and amethyst, of footfalls and murmurs, an evening plumy as a moth, warm and gentle as the throat of a pigeon.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton