panache

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I wish more people wrote puzzles with the verve, panache, and some other adjective that Merl does.

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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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  • Read her tips for balancing a hectic life with style and panache, here.
  • She accomplished this with stealth and panache, and made a successful retreat, but not before she completed my sister's act of domestic sabotage by removing the frilly pink restraining rope that was all that kept Jeremy from venting his spleen on everything within reach. —  Asimov'sSF,January2007
  • To Mr. Partridge it had assumed the guise of an inspiring panache, a banner with a strange device. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • Portraying such foibles with great energy, panache, and humor was Thompson's stock in trade. —  AEon Four
  • She pulled off the reclusive eccentric with elegant panache, and had done her best to keep her death secret. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
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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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