Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A plume of an ostrich; an ostrich-feather; specifically, one of the quill-feathers of the wings or tail.
- n. A name of Aglaophenia struthionides, one of the plumularian hydromedusans. See Aglaophenia.
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Examples
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Well, it was hard lines on her, but duty called, so I just popped my head round her door to call a chaste farewell - and there she was, dammit, reclining languorously on the coverlet like one of those randy classical goddesses, wearing nothing but the big ostrich-plume fan I'd brought her from Egypt, and her sniggering maid turning the lamp down low.
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He described the ostrich-plume hat, the blue wool cloak, my green cape, and my beaded slippers.
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A waving ostrich-plume — a buckler burnished bright;
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Behind her seat a sullen handsome girl waved an ostrich-plume fan with a slow rhythm.
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Well, it was hard lines on her, but duty called, so I just popped my head round her door to call a chaste farewell — and there she was, dammit, reclining languorously on the coverlet like one of those randy classical goddesses, wearing nothing but the big ostrich-plume fan I'd brought her from Egypt, and her sniggering maid turning the lamp down low.
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The large, bright eye glanced with the prettiest shyness at its captors, and the cluster of feathers forming its tail drooped with the rare grace of an ostrich-plume.
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In his right hand the gentleman carried a broad black hat with a scarlet ostrich-plume, in his left hand an ebony cane.
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So shiny was he that you could see reflected on his sides the black, gold-spangled tights and fluffy black skirts worn by Mlle. Zaretti, who poised on his back as lightly as if she had been an ostrich-plume dropped on a snow-bank and who smilingly kissed her finger-tips to the craning-necked tiers of spectators with charming indiscrimination and admirable impartiality.
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Involuntarily, the Doomsman stepped back and another arrow grazed his heel; a half turn to the right and a third shaft sheared the curling ostrich-plume from his hat.
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He of the ostrich-plume spurred to the gallop; inevitably their paths must intersect a few yards farther on.
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