Crossword-Solution: PLUME
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plume | v. | A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather. |
| Plume | v. | An ornamental tuft of feathers. |
| Plume | v. | A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers. |
| Plume | v. | A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward. |
| Plume | v. | A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses. |
| Plume | v. t. | To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. |
| Plume | v. t. | To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel. |
| Plume | v. t. | To adorn with feathers or plumes. |
| Plume | v. t. | To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill. |
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Sentences with PLUME (5)
Over wide and rushing rivers In his arms he bore the maiden; Light he thought her as a feather, As the plume upon his head-gear; Cleared the tangled pathway for her, Bent aside the swaying branches, Made at night a lodge of branches, And a bed with boughs of hemlock, And a fire before the doorway With the dry cones of the pine-tree.
But first he casts to change his proper shape, Which else might work him danger or delay: And now a stripling Cherube he appeers, Not of the prime, yet such as in his face Youth smil’d Celestial, and to every Limb Sutable grace diffus’d, so well he feignd; Under a Coronet his flowing haire In curles on either cheek plaid, wings he wore Of many a colourd plume sprinkl’d with Gold, His habit fit for speed succinct, and held Before his decent steps a Silver wand.
Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.
The Columbus Day Virus was actually dubbed by its authors as Data Crime, and might have generated more concern if not for the nick- nom-de-plume it inherited.
His face, though partly hidden by a long plume which floated down from his barrel-cap, bore a strong and mingled expression of passion, in which pride seemed to contend with irresolution.
Quotes with PLUME (3)
I myself beheld the King Charge at the head of all his Table Round, And all his legions crying Christ and him, And break them; and I saw him, after, stand High on a heap of slain, from spur to plume Red as the rising sun with heathen blood, And seeing me, with a great voice he cried, "They are broken, they are broken!" for the King, However mild he seems at home, nor cares For triumph in our mimic wars, the jousts — For if his own knight cast him down, he laughs Saying, his k…
The deer scent the wolves and stand silent and watchful. They turn and leap off like ballerinas, their plume-like tails raised in alarm.
I know that in the end you'll overwhelm me, but I'll still fight you as long as there's a breath in my body... Yes, you've robbed me of everything: the laurels of glory, the roses of love! But there's one thing you can't take away from me. When I go to meet God this evening, and doff my hat before the lofty gates, my salute will sweep the blue threshold of heaven, because I'll still have one thing intact, without a stain, something that I'll take with me in spite of you: My white plume.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 124 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).