(archaic, literary and poetic) A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.

(transitive, also figuratively) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.

plural of plume

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plume

Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.

simple past tense and past participle of plume

present participle of plume

The act by which something is plumed.

plural of pluming

A kind of grass, Erianthus saccharoides, now Bothriochloa saccharoides), with the spikelets arranged in great silky plumes, growing in swamps in the Southern United States.