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plumy, a. (n.)|ˈpluːmɪ|
[f. plume n. + -y.]
†1. Composed of down, downy. Obs.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 101 What feathers plumye she beareth, So manye squint eyebals shee keeps..So manye tongues clapper. 1649Lovelace Poems 54 But whilst a plumy curtaine she doth draw, A Chrystall Mirror sparkles in thy breast. 1700Dryden Pygmalion 56 Her head did on a plumy pillow rest.
2. Characterized by or abounding in plumes or feathers; feathery; feathered.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat., Defiance to Envie 37 Or would we loose her plumy pineon. 1715–20Pope Iliad xxiv. 363 Let the strong sovereign of the plumy race Tower on the right of yon ethereal space. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 642 What plumy people sing in every grove! 1855T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 2) 737 It causes their plumy covering to repel moisture.
3. Adorned or decked with a plume or plumes.
1700Dryden Pal. & Arcite iii. 452 Crested morions, with their plumy pride. 17..Beattie To Lady C. Gordon iii, The plumy helmet. 1891Atkinson Last Giant-killers 186 He saw the horses and the plumy black wain.
4. Plume-like, feathery.
c1611Chapman Iliad xii. 158 When a drift wind shakes Blacke clouds in peeces, and plucks snow in great and plumie flakes. 1798Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Summer 136 When the first sheaf its plumy top uprears. 1890Harper's Mag. July 200/1 Great plumy bunches of asparagus.
5. Comb. as plumy-crested, plumy-pounced, plumy-varnished.
1599Marston Sco. Vill. ii. vii. 203 Drawn through the eare with Ribands, plumy crested. 1726Pope Odyss. xix. 36 Ulysses bears The plumy-crested helms. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. vi. lix, Two doves of plumy-varnish'd throat.
†B. n. A person wearing a plume. Obs.
1687A. Behn Emperor of Moon i. i, I have been at the Chapel, and seen so many Beaus, such a number of Plumeys. |