plumaço

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin plūmācium (feather pillow).[1][2] Doublet of chumaço. By surface analysis, pluma +‎ -aço.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -asu
  • Hyphenation: plu‧ma‧ço

Noun

plumaço m (plural plumaços)

  1. panache, hackle used in horses
  2. (archaic) feather pillow

References

  1. ^ plumaço”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ plumaço”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024