In architecture, the triangular surface of a pendentive.
A plume as worn in a hat or helmet or in a woman's hair; especially, in medieval armor, a massive group of feathers set erect, often used as a heraldic bearing. A panache of variegated plumes. Prescott.
In zoology, a tuft, bunch, or cluster of hairs, feathers, or the like; a scopula; a panicle.
The Otterfolk got the idea, or else they didn't like waste.
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Destiny's Road
A substitute was found in the panache, the number of plumes showing the rank.
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Nakamura answered it with panache, advanced her throttles slightly, and the Eagle fighter moved off to the runway like a crippled stork.
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Red Storm Rising
Hurry back to base to fill in your expenses with just the right amount of panache, and Bob’s your uncle.
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Absolute Friends
Absolu, lance au poing, panache, au front ....
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Georges Guynemer
French, plume, verve, from Italian pinnacchio, plume, from Late Latin pinnāculum, diminutive of Latin pinna, feather, wing; see pet- in Indo-European roots.
Also penache (formerly pennache, pinnach); from Frenchpanache, Old Frenchpanache, pennache =Spanishpenacho=Portuguesepennacho= Italianpennachio,a plume of feathers, from Late Latin as if *pennatulum, neuter of pennatulus, provided with wings, winged, diminutive (in form) of Latinpennatus, winged, from .L.penna, a feather, plume, wing: see pen