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Panache

//pəˈnæʃ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An ornamental plume on a helmet. countable

    "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."

  2. 2
    a feathered plume on a helmet wordnet
  3. 3
    Flamboyance, energetic style or action. figuratively, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    distinctive and stylish elegance wordnet

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.

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