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plumed, ppl. a.
(pluːmd, poet. ˈpluːmɪd)
[f. plume v. + -ed1.]
†1. Plucked; stript of plumes or feathers. Obs.
1573Twyne æneid xi. (1584) R viij b, The goarie blood, and fethers plumed flit the ayer about. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xvi. (1739) 31 Kings were not then like unto plumed Eagles, exposed to the charity of the Fowls for food. 1730Hist. Litteraria I. 31 He opened a Salamander's Mouth, and endeavoured to make it bite a young plumed Chicken.
2. Furnished with a plume or plumes; feathered.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 479 Your Counterfet Countenaunce is all of Nysyte, A plummed partrydge all redy to flye. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 31 Quite it clove his plumed crest in tway. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle, etc. (1871) 132 When Dædalus his plumed bodie brings Safe to the shore. 1805P. Wakefield Dom. Recreat. vi. (1806) 89 The bell-flower animal, or, as some term it, the plumed polype. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xi, The plumed bonnet and the plaid By these Hebrideans worn. 1882‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. at Home ii. Roughing It, etc. 272 The plumed hearse,..the flags drooping at half-mast.
3. Special collocations: plumed serpent, a mythical creature depicted as part bird, part snake; spec. (freq. with capital initials) any of various deities in the religions of ancient Mesoamerica having this form, esp. Quetzlcoatl, the Aztec deity of vegetation and fertility; also attrib.
1915Amer. Anthropologist XVII. 480 (caption) (a), Pelican design; (b), plumed serpent design; from La Bermuda. Collection [of pottery] of Señor Alberto Imery. Ibid. 481 Two bowls in the Imery collection..bear upon the outside an interesting representation of the plumed serpent. 1926D. H. Lawrence (title) The Plumed Serpent. 1935Discovery Sept. 270/1 A flint dagger, 81/4 inches long, with a handle fashioned to represent the body and head of the Plumed Serpent. 1937Burlington Mag. July 55/1 Another point of far-reaching significance is brought out in the discussion of the symbol of the plumed serpent... In China a bird is given the emphasis and the serpent appears on its wings..while among the Mayas the serpent dominates but has the wings and feet of a bird. 1959C. S. Chinchilla in Kidder & Chinchilla Art of Ancient Maya 29 They do not worship Gukumatz (the plumed serpent) and Balau (the tiger) as animals, but as the deities that they embody under these forms. 1972Funk's Stand. Dict. Folklore 915/1 Quetzalcoatl. The feathered or plumed serpent god: known over all Middle America, and surviving in mythology to this day. 1979P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express iii. 47 The Indians liked him [sc. Maximilian] because he was blond, like Quetzalcoatl—Cortez enjoyed the same bizarre notoriety for his resemblance to the Plumed Serpent. |