plumery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
plumery (countable and uncountable, plural plumeries)
- (archaic) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
- 1894, Leonard Charles Smithers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1, page 194:
- O may the raven-bird whose cry our hapless parting croaked / Find ne'er a nesty home and eke shed all his plumery!
References[edit]
- “plumery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.