Plumery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "O may the raven-bird whose cry our hapless parting croaked / Find ne'er a nesty home and eke shed all his plumery!"

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"O may the raven-bird whose cry our hapless parting croaked / Find ne'er a nesty home and eke shed all his plumery!"

Etymology

From plume + -ery.

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