| 释义 |
ˈpluming, vbl. n.
[f. plume v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb plume, in various senses.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 71 Againste whiche daie she made greate preparation, for the plumyng of her self in gorgious arraie. 1633Latham Falconry Explan. Words, Plumming, is when a Hawk ceaseth [= seizeth] a fowle, and pulleth the feathers from the body. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. i. 54 The feathers..he thought were preferable to any others for the pluming of an arrow. |