Crossword-Solution: PLUMING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pluming | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Plume |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PLUMING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Priding (oneself) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PLUMING (5)
His education too, though not very general in its character, had been carried quite far enough to justify him in pluming himself upon a very decided advantage over the great bulk of the Mahometan population, including the men in authority.
Billy was, in fact, quite pluming herself on the adroit casualness with which she had introduced the subject nearest her heart.
And he has the art to recommend this attitude of mind by simply pluming himself upon it as a virtue; so that the reader, to keep the advantage over his author which most readers enjoy, is tricked into professing the same view.
How firm he had been! how kind! how masterful!--pluming himself on his man's strength, while he held her in his power as one might hold an insect, played with her shrinking woman's nature, and trampled it under his feet, coldly and quietly! She was in his way, and he had put her aside.
The good fellow said that he could see I had been sitting up all night, and he left me pluming myself upon the accidental art with which I had told my very necessary tarra-diddle.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2011).