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Definition of Deplumed
1. deplume [v] - See also: deplume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deplumed
Literary usage of Deplumed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"Among the last the “Lines to a Plagiarist, or the Daw deplumed,” deserves particular
attention. We quote the opening lines: “Hail Mickey Carty! ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... and that of Ely, before it was so much deplumed, were offered to him upon
terms savouring that way, he utterly rejected them. ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"It is beyond all account how many gentlemen's and citizens' estates are deplumed
by their feather-headed Wives, what useful supplies the pannage of England ..."
4. Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and by Peter Force (1844)
"It is beyond all account, how many Gentlemens and Citizens Estates are deplumed
by their feather-headed Wives, ..."
5. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters. With an Historical Sketch of the by Henry Norman Hudson (1888)
"... just as they are getting over the preliminary pains and vexations; and, while
pluming themselves with anticipated honours, arc suddenly deplumed into ..."
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