plumed meaning

Adjective: plumed

1. Having or covered with or abounding in plumes
   "the plumed serpent"; "white-plumed egrets"
   - plumy 
2. Having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
   - plumate, plumose 
3. (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume
   - crested

Verb: plume  ploom

1. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price
   - overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump [Brit], fleece, pluck, rob, hook 
2. Be proud of
   - pride, congratulate 
3. Deck with a plume
   "a plumed helmet" 
4. Clean with one's bill
   - preen 
5. Form a plume
   "The chimneys were pluming the sky"; "The engine was pluming black smoke" 
6. Dress or groom with elaborate care
   - preen, primp, dress

See also: adorned, decorated, feathered

Type of: arrange, attire, bedeck, bedight, cheat, chisel, clean, deck, deck out, deck up, dress up, experience, fancy up, feel, fig out, fig up, form, get up, gussy up [N. Amer], make clean, overdress, prink, rig out, rip off, set up, shape, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up

Encyclopedia: Plume

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1. they have red and yellow plumes in their hats.
2. we plume our confidence.
3. texas plumed itself upon its 330, 000 natives.
4. the inferno spewed a deadly plume of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere.
5. "some things are just too unjust for words," he said, expelling a plume of smoke.