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- noun Plural form of
panache .
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Examples
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Another corps of royal plumassiers supplied the white-feathered panaches that became emblems of the new Bourbon dynasty.10
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Another corps of royal plumassiers supplied the white-feathered panaches that became emblems of the new Bourbon dynasty.10
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Miners with scarlet panaches of flame in their flat caps were thronging the way.
The Eternal Feminine 1900
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The _caña_ had light violet-coloured _panaches_, which were much used by the Indians in the manufacture of their arrows.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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_'Ou fait la guerre avec de la musique, des panaches, des drapeaux, des harnais d'or, un deploiement de ceremonie. '
Celibates 1892
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With him came a gallant train, well armed and mounted and decorated with rich surcoats and panaches of feathers.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Washington Irving 1821
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