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plumed

/pluːmd/

plumed adjective: having or decorated with a plume or plumes. Also the simple past and past participle of plume.

Adjective

plumed (not comparable)

  1. Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
    • O now for euer / Farewell the tranquile mind, farewell content: / Farewell the plumed troope, and the big warres: / That makes ambition vertue: [...]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...
    • Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song, / No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain, / No plumed and plaided clans those hills among, / Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?1854, William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn

Also used as

plumed is also the simple past and past participle of plume.

Words formed from plumed

Phrases with plumed

Words that rhyme with plumed

Questions about plumed

What does plumed mean?
Plumed means having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
What part of speech is plumed?
Plumed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce plumed?
Plumed is pronounced /pluːmd/.

Words near plumed in the dictionary

  1. plume tail
  2. plume-holder
  3. plume-holders
  4. plumebird
  5. plumebirds
  6. plumed
  7. plumed disseminule
  8. plumed partridge
  9. plumed partridges
  10. plumed thistle
  11. plumed thistles

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