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pulled someone's plumes

pulled someone's plumes is the simple past and past participle of pull someone's plumes.

Meaning of pull someone's plumes

Verb

pull someone's plumes (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's plumes, present participle pulling someone's plumes, simple past and past participle pulled someone's plumes)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To humble, to puncture the pride of
    • that Tamburlaine:
      That like a Foxe in midſt of harueſt time,
      Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers:
      And as I heare, doth meane to pull my plumes […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

Questions about pulled someone's plumes

What is pulled someone's plumes the simple past and past participle of?
Pulled someone's plumes is the simple past and past participle of pull someone's plumes.

Words near pulled someone's plumes in the dictionary

  1. pulled someone's bacon out of the fire
  2. pulled someone's chestnuts out of the fire
  3. pulled someone's fat out of the fire
  4. pulled someone's leg
  5. pulled someone's plonker
  6. pulled someone's plumes
  7. pulled strings
  8. pulled teeth
  9. pulled the fire alarm
  10. pulled the football
  11. pulled the ladder up after oneself

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