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displume, v.|dɪsˈpluːm|
[f. dis- 7 a + plume n.; but in Caxton prob. ad. obs. F. desplumer ‘to plume or deprive of feathers’ (Cotgr.).]
†1. trans. Of birds: To cast (their feathers); to moult. Obs.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. i, Lyke as the fowles dysplume theyr fethers and the trees theyr levys.
2. To strip of plumes; = deplume 1.
1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. ii. i. 63 Desirous to displume the great Romanic Eagle. 1871Swinburne Songs bef. Sunrise, Wastes where the wind's wings break Displumed by daylong ache And anguish of blind snows.
b. transf. and fig. = deplume 2.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. i. Trophies 1347 Humblenes may flaring Pride displume. 1614Jackson Creed iii. To Rdr. A vj a, Academicall wits might displume them of these figge-tree leaues and manifest their nakednes to the world. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. x. ii. 196 Fénélon, so pitiably displumed of all his shining virtues.
Hence disˈplumed ppl. a.
1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 250 Abundance of tame ducks, and a number of displumed geese. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 440 A helmet displumed overshades his gray hair. 1827Southey in Q. Rev. XXXV. 139 His companion..reported the vanquished and displumed condor to be still alive. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. (1886) 5 The displumed hills stood clear against the sky. |