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Definition of Emplumed
1. a. Plumed.
Definition of Emplumed
1. Adjective. Decorated with plumes; plumed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emplumed
1. emplume [v] - See also: emplume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emplumed
Literary usage of Emplumed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1897)
"... with those blue far-reaching eyes, and that innocent angel face emplumed in
the golden ringlets ! Somebody told me yesterday that she never had known, ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... and very much compressed ; the upper mandible slightly curved, a very small
portion of the tibia naked, and the rest emplumed as far as the knee. ..."
3. Essays and Literary Studies by Stephen Leacock (1916)
"... co-relate the conception of God to the differentiation of a frog's foot, and
strut through life emplumed with the rump-feathers of their own conceit. ..."
4. Royal Truths by Henry Ward Beecher (1869)
"But when you carry it further south, it springs up and carries its stately growth
full three hundred feet toward heaven, and stands emplumed and embowered ..."
5. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the by Archibald Alison (1860)
"... marched up to the ankles in gore on this bloody field, you think yourself a
great man; and your fine emplumed brother-in-law crows on his own dunghill. ..."
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