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plumery

noun

Etymology

From plume + -ery.

  1. derived from *plewk-✻ — “to fly”
  2. derived from *plouksmā✻
  3. derived from plūma — “feather, plumage”
  4. derived from plume,plome — “feather, plumage”
  5. derived from plum,plume
  6. inherited from plum,plume — “feather; plumage”
  7. suffixed as plumery — “plume + ery”

Definitions

  1. Plumes, collectively or in general

    Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.

    • 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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No curated loop yet for plumery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA