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/plˈuːmd/
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ADJECTIVE
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having or covered with or abounding in plumes
the plumed serpent
white-plumed egrets - (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume
- having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
How To Use plumed In A Sentence
- Another man came from behind me and removed his richly plumed helmet.
- See this fellow, rage in his face and heart, carrying by the legs his cock, deplumed and dead. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
- Sissy went out back and gathered feathers where her mama had recently deplumed a hen. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Tail set high, plumed and carried in a gay curl over the back when moving.
- Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
- Some of the valuable horse aigrettes, which are encrusted and plumed, are also kept in the treasury.
- When he came, Mistress Marian was standing i 'th' great door o 'th' castle, in her hawking gown o 'green velure cloth laced all with silver cord; her plumed hat was on her curls, and her hawk, Beryl, on her fist. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
- At first it's impossible to see anything through the thick mass of branches, but suddenly I spot a beautiful scarlet-plumed tanager perched on a branch.
- The genus Pulsatilla includes about 30 species, many of which are valued for their finely-dissected leaves, solitary bell-shaped flowers, and plumed seed heads.
- On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky. The Silverado Squatters