Plumes
[plu:mz]
Examples
- And then you won't know me, sir; and I shall not be your Jane Eyre any longer, but an ape in a harlequin's jacket--a jay in borrowed plumes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Only a very faint bending of the head-dress and plumes welcomed Rawdon and his wife, as those prodigals returned to their family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was frost on the hairs of their muzzles and their breathing made plumes of frost in the air. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I have little right; and you, perhaps, have still less to come flourishing and fluttering into my chamber--a mere jay in borrowed plumes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Every one knows how the horns of stags become more and more branched, and the plumes of some birds become more finely developed, as they grow older. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Typed by Greta