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Meanings of plumy in English

Adorned with feathers or plumes.

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Having or covered with or abounding in plumes.

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Examples for "feathered"
Examples for "feathered"
1
The feathered game shooting is very good in the neighbourhood of Constantinople.
Sketches From My Life / By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha
2
These in turn feathered out into the tiny laterals across the meadow.
The Settling of the Sage
3
These were the love-days in bird-land-themating time for all feathered things.
Where the Sun Swings North
4
It was a feathered spear; not large, but the handle was gold-mounted.
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
5
She takes a few strides, sliding across the stage in feathered mules.
WATER FOR ELEPHANT
1
The children snuggled under the feathery shadow of the mesquite beside him.
The Trail Book
2
It is composed entirely of the white feathery flowers of the thatch-grass.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
3
The sun set behind the feathery foliage of the blossoming -Sajna -tree
The Home and the World
4
The lazy, feathery clouds were yet drifting before the moon and stars.
The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne
5
All four horses were hidden by the huge feathery spouts of sand.
Small wars: a novel
Usage of plumy in English
1
He caught it up and buried his face in the plumy tassels.
Lo, Michael!
2
Surprised, the skunk raised his plumy tail like a flag of battle.
Followers of the Trail
3
It was a perfect beauty, white with a plumy tail.
The Spanish Chest
4
Then, all at once, his plumy tail began to wave.
Further Adventures of Lad
5
Patrick Stewart provides the plumy narration, and the graphics are great, especially the creature design.
The Irish Times
6
The wind scarcely swayed its dense and plumy branches.
Confessions of Boyhood
7
He ruffled up his cold black nose, and elevated his bushy tail-hisbeautiful, plumy tail.
A Woman Tenderfoot
8
How golden her hair was under her plumy hat!
Rainbow Valley
9
And you, proud earth and plumy sea, fade out!
The Countess Cathleen
10
Skunk, carefully combing out his big, plumy tail.
Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories
11
And level earth and plumy sea, rise up!
The Countess Cathleen
12
Alice looked away over the starlit garden to where the plumy trees stirred in the night wind.
Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
13
The street and the white house-front were plumy with soft tree shadows wavering in a gentle wind.
The Butterfly House
14
But it was the plumy tail of the sheep dog, who was lying there with the Lubber-fiend.
Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V
15
I watched Quicksilver's thick, plumy tail flash out the office door, Tallgrass and Ric right behind him.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
16
She bore her plumy crown so grandly, you would have said she was indeed the queen of Actiniae.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 / A Maga...
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Plumy through the time