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ostrich-plume
[See plume.]
1. An ostrich-feather, or a bunch of two or three feathers.
[1436in Exch. Rolls Scotl. IV. 679 In ornamento plumarum de hostriche.] 1637Heywood Dial. xix. (1874) VI. 263 In my light chariot..deckt with Estrich plumes. c1820S. Rogers Italy, Brides of Venice 29 A fan, that gently waved, of ostrich-plumes. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 321 White horses..richly caparisoned, and with ostrich-plumes nodding on their heads.
2. a. The plumularian hydroid Aglaophenia struthionides. b. attrib. Applied to a variety of Chrysanthemum.
1891Daily News 19 Oct. 3/5 A curious variety of chrysanthemum... American growers have described it as the ostrich plume variety. 1893Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 7/1 Ostrich-plume chrysanthemum, which does not often come to perfection in this climate.
Hence ostrich-plumed a., decked with ostrich-plumes.
Mod. Newspr. Large white ostrich-plumed hats. |