adjective
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plumelike; feathery
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consisting of, covered with, or adorned with feathers
Etymology
Origin of plumy
Example Sentences
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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
Trees, trees on all sides! they combine Their plumy shades to throw, Through whose clear fruit and blossom fine Whene'er the sun may go, The ground beneath he deeply stains, As passing through cathedral panes.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
A hundred yards from the greasy docks lining the sluggish current from which a plumy mist was lifting, a wide screened doorway showed a blaze of electric-light upon a patch of saw-dust floor.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie
His topaz eyes got bigger and brighter, and his back higher and higher, and his tail plumier and plumier, every minute.
From Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 16, April 19, 1914 by Cook, George E.
She joked in a British Film Institute conversation that Dame Judi Dench often snagged the plumiest roles before they came to her and other actors of her caliber.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
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