plumes in English

noun
1
a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament.
a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume
verb
1
spread out in a shape resembling a feather.
smoke plumed from the chimneys
2
(of a bird) preen itself.
On alighting, which it does plumply, it immediately bends its body, turns its head to look behind it, performs a curious nod, utters its note, then shakes and plumes itself ,

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1. He often plumes himself on his Accomplishment

2. The horses wore golden plumes, tossing gilt.

3. Steam jets shoot their white plumes skyward.

4. He often plumes himself on his accomplishment.

5. Definition of Borrowed plumes in the Idioms Dictionary

6. Plumes rise and erupt on the surface.

7. Plumes of smoke billowed from the chimney.

8. The dancer wore a headdress of pink ostrich plumes.

9. Plumes of radioactive smoke were billowing around the helicopter.

10. That is why these plumes lack the dense central column seen in Prometheus-type plumes, in which dust is generated at the plume source.

11. Some people say there are not oil plumes.

12. Stinging crosswinds splayed the plumes of Pegasus' wings.

13. Cassini has detected complex carbon molecules in the ice plumes.

14. The coffin was drawn by horses with black plumes.

15. Celosia are noted for their brilliant "rooster comb" plumes

16. 15 In addition, plumes have remained undetected because they are hot.

17. Lobster olfactory Antennules hydrodynamically alter the spatiotemporal patterns of concentration in turbulent odor plumes

18. The impostor was exposed publicly and thus stripped of his borrowed plumes.

19. Examples of Pele-type plumes have been observed at Pele, Tvashtar, and Grian.

20. This raises the question, did the plumes cause the Pangaean crust to fracture?

21. Sprue of 7 heads wearing Burgonets, with 5 plumes which can be attached

22. Autointrusives are detected within mantle plumes, essentially representing the Antidromal time sequence of differentiates.

23. Alcids sport a variety of head plumes, bill ornaments, crests, and other colorful characteristics

24. What does Borrowed plumes expression mean? Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary.

25. They wear heavy and very ornate armour resplendent with plumes and ribbons.

26. Astronomers have seen gargantuan plumes of material from nearer galaxies as well.

27. Other researchers use lidar and research aircraft to directly test industrial emission plumes.

28. 4 The impostor was exposed publicly and thus stripped of his borrowed plumes.

29. Van Breugel explained, “We don’t currently have robotic systems to track odor or chemical plumes

30. Jeweled Aigrettes, at first made in the form of a tuft of plumes, became an

31. 3 In the speech which he made at the fair, he appeared in borrowed plumes.

32. ‘The skies started turning dark’ Another open question is the role of plumes above big Blowups

33. Among the impacts of deep sea mining, sediment plumes could have the greatest impact.

34. Deep purple foliage is topped by dusky mauve flower plumes on graceful, Arching stems.

35. And out of the tops of these tube worms are these beautiful red plumes.

36. Following this discovery, seven other plumes were located in earlier Voyager images of Io.

37. And so, you're seeing animals that are living next to a 500-degree-Centigrade water plumes.

38. Auklets in breeding plumage differ from the related murrelets in having plumes and other head o

39. 15 And, curled about the brim of this confection was the perkiest of green ostrich plumes.

40. Depending on the size of the particles and water currents the plumes could spread over vast areas.

41. Signal interference may also be caused by lightning, as this is frequently generated within volcanic eruption plumes.

42. The most bizarre discovery was the presence of icy geysers with plumes reaching 160 kilometers downwind.

43. The gentlemen wore blue jerseys, the ladies white aprons and quite fashionable hats with heavy plumes.

44. Tubeworms grow so as to keep their plumes in the region where the vent water and seawater mix.

45. 1 Mary looed charming in her borrowed plumes; she had taken, without asking, her aunt's fan and jewellery.

46. Quite why females should be so impressed by plumes, iridescent colours and whirling displays is an interesting question.

47. 5 The story tells us that there is always someone who tries to swagger about in borrowed plumes .

48. Similar dust plumes originate in the Gobi Desert, which combined with pollutants, spread large distances downwind, or eastward, into North America.

49. 22 Quite why females should be so impressed by plumes, iridescent colours and whirling displays is an interesting question.

50. From the Cambridge English Corpus The role of mantle plumes, particularly in the generation of flood Basaltic …