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Panache   Listen
noun
Panache  n.  
1.
A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers. "A panache of variegated plumes."
2.
A pleasingly flamboyant style or manner; flair (4); verve.





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"Panache" Quotes from Famous Books



... la-bas ou sont les tombes, Un beau palmier, comme un panache vert, Dresse sa tete, ou le soir les colombes Viennent nicher et se ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... his eyes to the distant plain with its lemon groves, its winding river, its little vague towns of narrow houses from which thin trails of smoke went up, and let them journey on to the great, smoking mountain lifting its snows into the blue, and its grave, not insolent, panache, he felt an immense sense of happy-go-lucky freedom with the empty days before him. His intellect was loose like a colt on a prairie. There was no one near to catch it, to lead it to any special object, to harness it and drive it onward ...
— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens
... and a westward dip of 15 degrees to 20 degrees—exactly the conditions which Australia seeks, and which produced the huge "Welcome Nugget" of Ballarat. They crop out of the normal trap-dyked grey granite, and select specimens show the fine panache lustre of copper. M. Marie afterwards took from one of the geodes a pinch of powder weighing about half a gramme, and cupelled a bright dust-shot bead weighing not less than two centigrammes. Without further ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton


Words linked to "Panache" :   elegance, plume, style, dash, elan


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