panache
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /pəˈnæʃ/, /pəˈnɑːʃ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æʃ
Noun[edit]
panache (countable and uncountable, plural panaches)
- (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
- 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 4, in The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard:
- I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
- (uncountable, figurative) Flamboyance, energetic style or action.
- Synonyms: dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve
- 1894, Kate Chopin, “At the 'Cadian Ball”, in Bayou Folk:
- One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.
- 1988 December 11, Thomas M. Disch, “Lost in Cyberspace”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Cyberpunk caters to the wish-fulfillment requirements of male teen-agers, but this is a job that can be done with varying degrees of panache, and there is currently no more accomplished caterer than William Gibson.
Translations[edit]
ornamental helmet plume
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flamboyant style or action
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Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), borrowed from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinacle.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
panache m (plural panaches)
- (also figurative) panache
- (Canada) the bulk of antlers of deer and moose
- column (of smoke)
Synonyms[edit]
- (flamboyant style): flamboyance, verve, brio, bravoure
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “panache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- panache on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French panache, itself from Italian pennacchio.
Noun[edit]
panache m (invariable)
- (fashion) panache (ornamental plumage)
- Synonym: pennacchio
Further reading[edit]
- panache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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