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
Here we had a sort of scabius ten feet high, and a rush or water-grass twenty feet in height, with its plumy reed.
From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A new fox-skin cap, too, with the plumy white-tipped tail bobbing to his neck, added the finish to this forest dandy.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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 George E. Cook
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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