Synonyms
Examples for "plume"
Examples for "plume"
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However, there is still debate about whether the inferred plume actually exists.
2
The breeze catches the plume in his hat and flutters it smartly.
3
In the distance, a plume of dust was billowing off the road.
4
The Captain had a sword and a white plume in his shako.
5
From somewhere in the city a black plume of smoke was rising.
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A second experiment investigated the predictive relationship between feather-eating and plumage damage.
2
Handsome in the glistening summer sun sat the bird of rainbow plumage.
3
Birds of beautiful plumage inhabited the groves, and sported in the waters.
4
One example described was castrated in full winter plumage in December 1906.
5
There is one specimen, a male in full plumage, in the Museum.
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Lord Maccon and the squire were clearly birds of entirely different feathers.
2
Many fine folk were spitting feathers at Saturday's result, writes Killian Doyle.
3
But he observed: Current uses of feathers typically involve the same species.
4
The swan feathers were still in her box; I had recently looked.
5
And meanwhile the lady of the feathers was seen nightly in Piccadilly.
6
The most elegant stuffs became the substance of his garments; feathers reappeared.
7
The old man looked in and saw the charred chicken and feathers.
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Their feathers alone cost as much as five or six thousand dollars.
9
A few feathers in the bottom will make it soft and comfortable.
10
There are enough feathers and netting in the house to finish it.
11
The feathers sought were those of the Labrador Duck and the Eider.
12
Nonka ruffles some feathers in pursuit of the truth behind Nsizwa's accident.
13
And then she pinched it in the neck, and smoothed its feathers.
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The end of the tail feathers is also of the same colour.
15
The pillows were of the finest feathers from the breasts of ducks.
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Evidence continues to accumulate that feathers evolved for purposes unrelated to flight.
