Meaning & use

Plumery

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A mass or display of plumes or feathers.

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The general's helmet was topped with an elaborate plumery of white feathers.

Exotic birds filled the aviary with color and plumery.

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A rare, mostly literary word now largely replaced in everyday use by 'plumage'.

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