plumassiern.
/ˌpluːməˈsɪə/, U.S. /ˌpluməˈsɪ(ə)r/ A person who works with or trades in ornamental feathers or plumes.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > workers with other animal materials > [noun] > with feathers
plumassier1589
feather-monger1599
pluminarya1631
plumist1812
feather-curler?1881
1589 R. Hakluyt tr. C. Adams in Princ. Navigations ii. 287 The couerings of his tente..are all of gold..with the curious workemanship of plumasiers [L. plumariorum].
1812 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag (heading) Anacreontic to a Plumassier.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 105 Lady Downing Street must take care that her Royal or Serene Highness's court plume come home in due time from the plumassier.
1885 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 2 May In New York city alone there are about one hundred persons largely and specially engaged in feathers, as importing merchants, dealers, feather manufacturers, plumassiers, naturalists, etc.
1920 Times 26 Mar. 10/3 The Bill..protects the large and innocuous trade in ostrich, marabout (turkey), and the feathers of..birds killed in the ordinary way for food, so that the plumassier and the merchant would still continue their callings.
1984 Times 10 Dec. 12/5 Mr Wilfred James Henry Paddison,..plumassier to three queens.
2001 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Sept. 4 The status handbags..in dark grey satin covered by hand with silvered feathers by Parisian plumassier Lemarie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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