Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plume worn in war.
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Examples
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Flyaway frowned fearfully, and the tuft of hair atop of her head danced like a war-plume.
Little Folks Astray Sophie May 1869
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Flyaway shook her head so hard, that the "war-plume" under her bonnet would have nodded, if the air could have got at it.
Little Folks Astray Sophie May 1869
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The keen weapon cut the war-plume from the scalping-tuft of Uncas, and passed through the frail wall of the lodge, as though it were hurled from some formidable engine.
The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"Ere the white war-plume o'er thy brow can wave; --
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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