plumed

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plumed

(plo͞omd)

adj.

1. Provided or adorned with one or more plumes or plumelike structures: a plumed hat; a plumed seed.

2. Having hair that resembles a plume, as in being long and fluffy: a dog's plumed tail.

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plumed

(pluːmd)

adj

having or decorated with feathers

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plumed

(plumd)

adj.

adorned with a plume or plumes.

[1520–30]

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Adj.	1.	plumed - having or covered with or abounding in plumes; "the plumed serpent"; "white-plumed egrets" plumy feathered - having or covered with feathers; "our feathered friends"
	2.	plumed - having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft plumate, plumose biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms feathered - having or covered with feathers; "our feathered friends"
	3.	plumed - (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume crested adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction

Translations

plumed

[pluːmd] ADJ [hat] → con plumas; [helmet] → empenachado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

plumed

adj helmet etc → federgeschmückt, mit Federschmuck; the peacock with its magnificently plumed tail → der Pfau mit seinem prächtigen Schwanzgefieder

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

plumed

[pluːmd] adj (helmet) → chiomato/a

References in classic literature ?

The German, though he reeled for an instant before the thrust of the Englishman, struck his opponent so fairly upon the vizor that the laces burst, the plumed helmet flew to pieces, and Sir Nigel galloped on down the lists with his bald head shimmering in the sunshine.

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The little cabarets and sutlers' shops along the bay resounded with the scraping of fiddles, with snatches of old French songs, with Indian whoops and yells, while every plumed and feathered vagabond had his troop of loving cousins and comrades at his heels.

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This was an airy slim boy in shrimp-colored tights that made him look like a forked carrot, the rest of his gear was blue silk and dainty laces and ruffles; and he had long yellow curls, and wore a plumed pink satin cap tilted complacently over his ear.