Definitions for plumes

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plumes plume

Spelling: [ploom]

IPA: /plum/

Plumes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in plumes (elmpsu).

Definitions for plumes

noun

1. a feather.
2. a large, long, or conspicuous feather:
3. a soft, fluffy feather:
4. any plumose part or formation.
5. a feather, a tuft of feathers, or some substitute, worn as an ornament, as on a hat, helmet, etc.
6. a feather or featherlike token of honor or distinction, especially one worn on a helmet.
7. plumage.
8. a vertically or longitudinally moving, rising, or expanding fluid body, as of smoke or water.
9. a visible pattern of smoke resulting from emissions from a stack, flue, or chimney.
10. Also called mantle plume. Geology. a deep-seated upwelling of magma within the earth's mantle. Compare diapir.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish, cover, or adorn with plumes or feathers.
2. (of a bird) to preen (itself or its feathers).
3. to feel complacent satisfaction with (oneself); pride (oneself) (often followed by on or upon):

Origin of plumes

1350-1400; earlier plome, plume, Middle English plume Middle French Latin plūma soft feather (> Old English plūm-, in plūmfether downy feather)

Examples for plumes

He wears a plume on his head, and does nothing but dance in the sunshine.

Borgman has escaped through a tunnel, leaving a plume of smoke in his wake.

We are ashamed to own we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able to be so.

Reprinted with the permission of plume, a member of the Penguin Group.

And you, Hermogenes, on what do you plume yourself most highly?

She had not a sail aloft nor a plume of smoke in her funnel.

In fighting jacket and plume Jeb Stuart came into the light.

As ocean currents head eastward across the Pacific, the plume is expected eventually to hit the West Coast of the United States.

Follow the path as the plume spreads and the ultimate destination becomes clear.

A plume of black smoke rises to the sky as the masked assassins speed away.