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Plume
pluːm
Plume definitions
noun
plume
plumes
- a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament
"a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume"
- a part of an animal's body that resembles a feather
"the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes"
- a long cloud of smoke or vapour resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin
"as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath"
- a mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source
"a radioactive plume"
- a localized column of hotter magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in locations away from plate margins
verb
plume
plumed
plumes
pluming
- spread out in a shape resembling a feather
"smoke plumed from the chimneys"
- decorate with or as if with feathers
"I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk"
- (of a bird) preen itself
- feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something
"she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan"