plumy adjective.
['plu:mi] L16.[from PLUME noun + -Y1.]1. Made of down, downy.
L16-E18.■ Dryden Her head did on a plumy pillow rest.2. Characterized by or having many plumes or feathers; feathered.
L16.■ T. R. Jones It causes their plumy covering to repel moisture.3. Plumelike, feathery.
E17.■ Yeats When the live west flashed with surge of plumy fire. ■ S. Leslie Traveller's Joy encircled the bushes with plumy seed-burst like the feathers of..Birds of Paradise.4. Decorated with a plume or plumes.
E18.■ J. C. Atkinson He saw the horses and the plumy black wain. ■ pluminess noun (
rare)
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