Plumage Definition

plo͝omĭj
noun
A bird's feathers, collectively.
Webster's New World
Feathers used ornamentally.
American Heritage
Elaborate dress; finery.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Plumage

Noun

Singular:
plumage
Plural:
plumages

Origin of Plumage

  • From Old French plumage (14c.), itself from plume (“feather") (from Latin pluma (“feather, down"), from a Proto-Indo-European base *plews- (“to pluck, a feather, fleece") + -age.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from plume plume from Latin plūma

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Plumage Sentence Examples

  • Cuckoos are abundant, some of them of lovely plumage, also rollers, kingfishers and hornbills.

  • Still it is brisk in its movements, and its variegated plumage makes it a pleasing bird.

  • Its striated plumage also favours this view, as an evidence of permanent immaturity or generalization of form, since striped feathers are so often the earliest clothing of many of these birds, which only get rid of them at their first moult.

  • As a whole, the birds of Papua are remarkable for their brilliance of plumage, or their metallic colouring.

  • This has no red in its plumage.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLU

Words Ending With

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