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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
plumed (not comparable)
- 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 O for Thomas Walkley, , published 1622, →OCLC, , 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?
Derived terms
Translations
having or decorated with a plume or plumes
Verb
plumed
- simple past and past participle of plume
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