Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Consisting of or covered with feathers.
- adj. Resembling a feather or plume.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or covered with or abounding in plumes
- adj. adorned with feathers or plumes
- adj. resembling a plume
Etymologies
- plume + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And thanks to Stewart's plumy voice and dramatic personae, even a casual remark or gesture has import.”
The Huffington Post: Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo
“And in that look is the end of innocence, of benevolent patronage, an era when strolling architects and plumy journalists can gossip complacently about how they have arranged a good time for the rest of us.”
“He was a schmoozer, speaking in plumy tones as he negotiated during long phone calls with the vendors.”
“Black fur covered his pointed ears, wide side ruff, and back, all the way to his plumy tail, but he had a triangle of white over his eyes and muzzle that extended down his chest.”
“Shaped like a BBC documentary and narrated by Tom Baker in suitably plumy, Masterpiece Theatre tones, Britain USA sends the duo on a rapid-fire tour of the states.”
“There is a two-fold complaint nestled in the plumy thicket of today's screed, good people.”
“There is a two-fold complaint nestled in the plumy thicket of today”
“Uncle William once expressed to Mother a wish that he could have a long and plumy tail to drape across one arm, for making entrances . . .”
“His movements are twitchy and birdlike and he pronounces dialogue in a blooming, plumy voice.”
“It is a rich, heavy wine with a slightly plumy taste.”
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Henderson the Rain King
Words taken from Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
yellowback, unkillable, swack, hoarfrost, decapotable, brownian, mackinaw, taxwise, oratorio, picaresque, masonite, catalpa and 109 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for plumy.
yarb She sent her mind out from the hall to walk in the night, which was not wet, yet had a bloom of rain in the air, so that the lights shone with a plumy beam and all roads seemed to run to a soft white cliff.
- Rebecca West, The Judge Jul 16, 2009