单词 | plumach |
释义 | plumachn. Chiefly Scottish in later use. A plume of feathers. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > plume (of feathers, etc.) crestelc1320 crestc1380 plumach1494 plumasse1494 plume1530 plumage1565 panache1584 plumassery1613 kalgi1715 hackle1816 heckle1855 panache-crest1864 osprey1885 paradise1905 1494 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 400 Foure balde horsses, well barded and like crestes on theyr heddys as wer on theire tentes stondyng be twen ij. great and high plumashis of whit. ?1500 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Calais (1846) 51 An hatte of silke garnysshed with a cheyne of gold, and the goodliest plumashes of whit austriche feders that ever I saw. 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina i. 52 All richly embroidered with gold and scarlet, carrying a plummach of white feathers, tipped with scarlet. 1677 J. Brown Christ the Way To Rdr. sig. C8 They have stole away mistresse morality her plumash, and stript her of her ornaments. c1686 R. Law Memorialls (1818) 162 Plumashes above, and gramashis below, Its no wonder to see how the world doth go. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 86 Having on their Heads their Caps of Silver guilt, with Plumaches of Feathers. 1904 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. xi. 335 He was the more conspicuous as the only wearer of a white plumach. 1990 W. N. Herbert in Forked Tongue (1994) 115 Thi dance o sunlicht aff yir freithy plumashe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1494 |
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