plumery

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English

Etymology

From plume +‎ -ery.

Noun

plumery (countable and uncountable, plural plumeries)

  1. (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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