(n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(2) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(3) Hodgson’s team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.
(4) A week that began with faith in David Moyes disappearing at an alarming rate has ended with United looking more like their old selves, the inclusion of Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa allowing them to play with a panache that has rarely been evident this season.
(5) It’s prepared and served tableside with a huge dose of panache (and potency).
(6) There was panache to the way the visitors responded to Mangala’s loss when their lead had suddenly been rendered fragile, the manner in which the substitutes, James Milner and Frank Lampard, combined for the latter to dispatch his side’s second 10 minutes from time – a precise finish from the edge of the area – a reminder of underlying pedigree.
(7) Tulisa led, and did so with panache and some beautiful gravel.
(8) If panache is too high a bar he really does need some pushback to make this show at all interesting.
(9) To the moral seriousness established by Orwell and others, they added a crisp wit and a panache welcomed by a country emerging from some stark and difficult years.
(10) All of this is delivered with remarkable panache given his relatively recent introduction to the world of stand-up.
(11) The cabinet papers also disclose that the cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, personally warned Thatcher that Heseltine, despite his undoubted "zest and panache'', was not the man to save Britain's inner cities arguing he was "distrusted and disliked in the local authority world".
(12) He presided over Brain of Britain with sympathy for the contestants, wit and panache."
(13) Iain broke out of that dichotomy with all the panache of the spaceship exploding from inside another spaceship on the cover of Consider Phlebas, the first of his SF novels to be published, by writing of an expansive, optimistic possible future rooted in the same materialist and evolutionary view of life that had in the past been seen only as a dark background to cosmically futile strivings.
(14) Yet it was only a passing irritation and Alli can be forgiven when he plays this stylishly, with so much energy and panache.
(15) Of course the first lady embraced the offer and, with unprecedented speed and panache, she was endorsed by all Zanu-PF provinces as the next head of the Women’s League to be elected, without contest, at the current congress.
(16) There are campaign photographs of him, emerging from a motorcade in inscrutable shades, that ooze JFK panache.
(17) We now know that this was the key moment, the crucial day, when France forgot all about Cyrano and buried panache.
(18) Alice has all the makings of a long-term classic: a bold, funny and mercifully whimsy-free take on Lewis Carroll, accompanied by the fizzing musical panache of Joby Talbot’s score.
(19) Rentokil did cleaning; G4S did security; Capita did IT; Serco did anything and everything – and its panache in the bidding process meant that it often beat out competition from specialist firms.
(20) England had scored more points against France than ever before, taking their try tally for the tournament to 18 and looking like a team capable of making an impact in the World Cup – combining power up front with pace and panache.
Plume
Definition:
(v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
(v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.
(v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
(v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
(v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
(v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
(v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
(v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.
(v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
(2) On computer screens, the plume showed up as a patch of sky where levels of ash were above 200 micrograms per cubic metre.
(3) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
(4) Papillomavirus DNA has been reported recently in the vapor (smoke plume) derived from warts treated with carbon dioxide laser; this raises concerns for operator safety.
(5) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(6) Polar conductivity data substantiate the fact that small air ions of one polarity in the plume are elevated while those of opposite polarity are suppressed compared to background concentrations found in the rural environment.
(7) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(8) These "plume cells" are about 30-40 microns long and have an extremely irregular nucleus in their expanded terminus.
(9) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
(10) The fire also burned two vehicles and a US Forest Service garage and sent an enormous ashy plume over the mountains.
(11) Using satellite imagery, researchers could map the areas of coral covered by plumes of sediment released by the dredging process.
(12) The results allow the following changes in the germ counts in the plume of a wet cooling tower to be expected: 1.
(13) May 31, 2017 Images posted on social media showed a huge plume of smoke in the sky.
(14) A large plume of smoke rises from what is said to be Baiji oil refinery in Baiji, northern Iraq.
(15) It released a video of a vehicle driving away down a road, followed later by a plume of smoke rising in the distance.
(16) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
(17) This surplus was interpreted as due to dry deposition from the plume, and deposition velocities were estimated at 0.02-0.10 m s-1.
(18) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(19) We have calculated washout factors for locations where there are data on deposition, rainfall and air concentrations during the passage of the Chernobyl plume.
(20) were detected in one-third of the samples and low numbers of Campylobacter jejuni were found in the sewage and plume.