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English
Etymology
From plume + -ery.
Noun
plumery (countable and uncountable, plural plumeries)
- (archaic) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
1894, Leonard Charles Smithers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1, page 194:O may the raven-bird whose cry our hapless parting croaked / Find ne'er a nesty home and eke shed all his plumery!
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