PLUMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plumed mean? 

• PLUMED (adjective)
  The adjective PLUMED has 3 senses:

1. having or covered with or abounding in plumes

2. having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft

3. (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume

  Familiarity information: PLUMED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or covered with or abounding in plumes

Synonyms:

plumed; plumy

Context example:

white-plumed egrets

Similar:

feathered (having or covered with feathers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft

Synonyms:

plumate; plumed; plumose

Similar:

feathered (having or covered with feathers)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume

Synonyms:

crested; plumed

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

 Context examples 

It has erect triangular-shaped ears and a heavily plumed tail curled over the back.

(American Eskimo Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

The Alaskan Malamute is a large, strong dog with a thick, coarse double coat and a plumed tail held over the back.

(Alaskan Malamute, NCI Thesaurus)

Its plumed tail curls up over the back and down the side.

(Finnish Spitz, NCI Thesaurus)

His plumed helmet was carried behind him by his body-squire, and his head was covered by a small purple cap, from under which his snow-white hair curled downwards to his shoulders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Papillon, also called the Continental Toy Spaniel, has a long coat with a long, plumed tail which is carried curled over the back.

(Papillon, NCI Thesaurus)

He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My aunt, however, having had time to cool, while Peggotty was out showing Mr. Dick the soldiers at the Horse Guards—and being, besides, greatly pleased to see Agnes—rather plumed herself on the affair than otherwise, and received us with unimpaired good humour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Down in the courtyard half-clad wretches, their bare limbs all mottled with blood-stains, strutted about with plumed helmets upon their heads, or with the Lady Rochefort's silken gowns girt round their loins and trailing on the ground behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sports of the lists had done much in days gone by to impress the minds of the people, but the plumed and unwieldy champion was no longer an object either of fear or of reverence to men whose fathers and brothers had shot into the press at Crecy or Poitiers, and seen the proudest chivalry in the world unable to make head against the weapons of disciplined peasants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)