Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable)An ornamental plume on a helmet.

    Federbusch

    плюма́жpljumáž, султа́нsultán

    a feathered plume on a helmet

  2. (figuratively, uncountable)Flamboyance, energetic style or action.

    Schwung, Elan

    щегольство́ščegolʹstvó, фатовство́fatovstvó, рисо́вкаrisóvka

Examples

3 sentences
  1. We have to lose with panache.

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  2. You have to lose with panache.

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  3. Mary always ties her bows with such panache.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
ornamental helmet plume:
flamboyant style or action:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
ornamental helmet plume:
flamboyant style or action:

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”)

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.

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Forms

plural: panaches
Singularpanache
Pluralpanaches

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedpanached

See also

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