How To Use Plumy In A Sentence
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the dog's plumy tail
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A squirrel dashed across the road, plumy tail bouncing behind it, and went up a tree.
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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.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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Elegant ruby in colour, the wines shows good plumy aromas benefited from the Merlot grape follows by herbal and spicy notes.
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Although the plumy flowers are beautiful, the form, color, and texture of miscanthus foliage is quite striking by itself.
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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.
HBO's 'Little Britain USA' lends us lots of laughs
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He was a schmoozer, speaking in plumy tones as he negotiated during long phone calls with the vendors.
Office Politics
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-looking guiltily up from a display of feathery, plumy things.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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It was a painful operation, for his thatch was a stubborn mat of crisp waves and knotty tangles to his plumy tail and down to his feathered toes.
Greyfriars Bobby
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It was not so easy as it seemed, to get out on the trees, and they decided not to attempt it, but thought they would wander along the brink of the stream, and in doing this they discovered all sorts of wonderful things in what Florence called the Fairy Dell: moss-grown rocks from which sprung tiny bell-shaped flowers; a circle of wee pink toadstools, which indeed seemed fit for the elfin folk; a wild grapevine with a most delightfully arranged swing on which the two girls "teetered" away in great joy; shining pebbles, bits of rose-colored quartz, a forest of plumy ferns, and all such like things, over which the city child exclaimed and marveled.
A Sweet Little Maid
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In full view, and lit up by the reflected radiance flung out from the dome, a rushing waterfall made sonorous surgy music of its own as it tumbled headlong into a rocky recess overgrown with lotus-lilies and plumy fern, -- here and there, small, white and gold tents or pavilions glimmered invitingly through the shadows cast by the great magnolia trees, from whose lovely half-shut buds balmy odors crept deliciously through the warm air.
Ardath
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He was just coming down for dinner (I was sitting at the bottom of the stairs) when a plump woman with straw-colored hair and a big plumy hat came in.
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"Uncle Bob," she said, as she drew a long white glove over her elbow, her face shadowed by her plumy hat,
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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.
Songs of Love & Death
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And thanks to Stewart's plumy voice and dramatic personae, even a casual remark or gesture has import.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo
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We can gain a grasp of this wonder of structure from a seed of groundsel or a sparrow's feather picked up in the street; for a spray of plumy meadowsweet or one dandelion floret is a poem in itself, and the sand particle is complex, curiously fashioned and polished.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
