Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling a plume or feather.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In entomology, resembling a plume: said of a hair or bristle when it bears smaller hairs.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
Etymologies
- Latin plūmātus, feathered, from plūma, feather. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“After breakfast he dusted the glass over these portraits himself with a cloth, and brushed the oil painting of his wife with a plumate kept suspended from a small brass hook by the side of the heavy gold frame.”
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Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
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reesetee having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
Jun 12, 2007