panache

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  1. noun Dash; verve.
  2. noun A bunch of feathers or a plume, especially on a helmet.

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  • The Otterfolk got the idea, or else they didn't like waste. —  Destiny's Road
  • A substitute was found in the panache, the number of plumes showing the rank. —  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. —  Red Storm Rising
  • It was characteristic of her nature that while being awed by Devon Haines's panache, she could still feel sorry for her. —  Texas! Lucky
  • Absolu, lance au poing, panache, au front .... —  Georges Guynemer
 

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  1. French, plume, verve, from Italian pinnacchio, plume, from Late Latin pinnāculum, diminutive of Latin pinna, feather, wing; see pet- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also penache (formerly pennache, pinnach); from French panache, Old French panache, pennache =Spanish penacho=Portuguese pennacho= Italian pennachio,a plume of feathers, from Late Latin as if *pennatulum, neuter of pennatulus, provided with wings, winged, diminutive (in form) of Latin pennatus, winged, from .L.penna, a feather, plume, wing: see pen
 

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