plumy


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resembling a plume

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having or covered with or abounding in plumes

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adorned with feathers or plumes

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"Plumy nut is an unmixed food, but mainly a multi treatment [administered] to children facing malnourish.
My boyfriend, Graham, and I weaveweave because we're slightly drunk after a breakfast of plumy slivovitz, brandy fritules, and Turkish coffeealong the Stradun, the main commercial street of Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
The media are said to include steel, but none can be seen, though there must be some kind of armature hidden under the long, full tail--yes, this biker has a tail--where the fronds turn plumy and rustly and lift the figure eight feet in the air, as if it were riding that airborne feather bike.
Usually one expects the Bard's words to be spoken in plumy voices.
You are a trifle conspicuous, too, my friend.' The plumy tail thumped the floor.
The Oz books by Frank Baum, and later ones by Ruth Plumy Thompson.
pachysandra, periwinkle, Hosta, plumy bleeding heart, bearberry, barren strawberry, goutweed (careful that it and Lamium are prevented from covering the entire property).
Where plumy songsters strain their little throats, And fill th' air with their harmonious notes, Where lowing kine and bleating flocks repair From Phoebus' ray, to taste the noontide air.
He closed his eyes, thrust his head back and issued a long, deep sigh before announcing in a plumy Old Etonian accent: "The last six months really have been quite beastly."
[...] Their immense Altitude makes them bend with their own weight and the fine delicate foliage gives a plumy feathery aspect to the whole.
JARVIS: How nice the Pies do smell--oh theres a plumy veal pie--Eh, who's this --Mrs.
It's then we discover that really, if you take away the plumy accents and tweed, we've got far more in common than we originally believed possible.
The wine arrived - a bottle of Chilean San Perito 2009, a blend of robust, hearty cabernet sauvignon and rich plumy merlot that fills the palate with big, juicy autumn fruits.
The red grape of Puglia in the south is the primitivo that comes across in rich plumy expressions.