plumed

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pluːmd/
  • Rhymes: -uːmd

Adjective

plumed (not comparable)

  1. Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. [] (First Quarto), London: [] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, [], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], pages 51–52:
      O now for euer / Farewell the tranquile mind, farewell content: / Farewell the plumed troope, and the big warres: / That makes ambition vertue: [...]
    • 1854, William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn:
      Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song, / No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain, / No plumed and plaided clans those hills among, / Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?

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Verb

plumed

  1. simple past and past participle of plume

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