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replume

verb

Etymology

From re- + plume.

  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. prefixed as replume — “re + plume”

Definitions

  1. To plume again or differently.

    • In around 1350, Taillevent recorded a peacock cooked and replumed in its plumage, and in 1390 a cookbook gave instructions for half a suckling pig sewn to a half capon, the whole lacquered silver and gold.

The neighborhood

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