plumage

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The feathers covering the body of a bird collectively.

   “Very fayre ⁊ hardy Hawkes [“Slauon Goshawkes”], large footed, very well penned, theyr downe and plumage excellent fine, their tungs blacke, and their nares large and wide.”

2. isim Feathers used ornamentally; feathering; (countable) a bunch or tuft of such feathers; a plume.

   “[S]he could not but contrast the splendour of the Polish retinues and their plumages and draperies, with the strait-buttoned Prussian dignitaries, all in mere soldier uniform, succinct 'blue coat, white linen gaiters,' and no superfluity even in the epaulettes and red facings.”

3. isim Feathers which are fed to a hawk to cause it to regurgitate, for the purpose of cleaning its crop; a type of casting.
4. isim A person's dress, especially when elaborate or fine.

   “While she was thinking what to say, Marie gradually wiped away her tears, and smoothed her plumage in a general sort of way, as a dove might be supposed to make toilet after a shower, […]”

5. isim A person's external appearance, especially when showy.

   “I have thought / Of thee, thy learning, gorgeous eloquence, / And all the strength and plumage of thy youth, […]”