单词 | pluming |
释义 | plumingn. The action of plume v. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > making a display strutting1399 pluming1486 swashing1556 flantado1582 showing forth1615 jetting1654 parading1686 flaunting1729 showing off1822 peacocking1837 swanking1900 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping or being stripped of feathers plucking1440 unpluming1592 deplumation1611 pluming1614 depluming1655 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > plumes or feathers > decoration with pluming1801 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. bijv Yf she leue plumynge and loke upon you: stande styl & cherke her. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses (new ed.) i. sig. Fviv Againste whiche daie she made greate preparation, for the plumyng of her self in gorgious arraie. 1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶2v Plumming, is when a Hawke ceaseth [= seizeth] a fowle, and pulleth the feathers from the body. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxxiii. 32 His Companions.., upon a Discovery of the Truth of the Case, fell to Pluming of him by Consent. 1767 Adventures of Author I. xi. 88 We may now suppose them arrived at this gay circle, strutting, ogling, pluming, peacocking. a1783 H. Brooke Impostor (1789) iii. ii. 40 From the first pluming of my young ambition. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. i. 54 The feathers..he thought were preferable to any others for the pluming of an arrow. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 622 Permit a few words in answer to the question ‘Wherefore such a beak’ for the Toucan... Perhaps also for defence and pluming. 1957 Amer. Anthropologist 59 247 The pluming of one's status feathers is more important than the accomplishment of a task. 2004 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 5 Dec. 6 The pluming comprises the normal flue gases of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, mixed with water vapour, so it should be no more environmentally damaging than the emissions from a normal boiler. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plumingadj. That plumes (in various senses of the verb); esp. (of smoke, a cloud, etc.) that rises up in a plume. ΚΠ a1823 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville (1826) IV. 178 Though they would..skim the level turf To other slopes, and other pluming groves. 1880 T. G. Hake Maiden Ecstasy 5 She answers not, but seems to ask the sea And darkly pluming cloud. 1985 W. Styron in Esquire Aug. 96/3 A sudden explosion, a pluming bituminous beard of smoke, every heart skipping a beat. 1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 221 The grotesque compote of his own envious grief and pluming self-regard. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1486adj.a1823 |
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