plumy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From plume + -y.

Hill and common were plumy with the brake-fern. — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan
The godlike Hector, high above the rest, Shakes his huge spear, and nods his plumy crest: In throngs around his native bands repair, And groves of lances glitter in the air. — The Iliad, Homer
The snow-horses went racing over the wrinkled ice, over the Don Flats, and over the marsh toward the lake, white, for they were driven snow, but on them, scattered dark, were riding plumy fragments of partridge ruffs--the famous rainbow ruffs. — Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton

plumelike

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