plumery

English

Etymology

plume +‎ -ery

Noun

plumery (countable and uncountable, plural plumeries)

1. (archaic) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
   • 1894, Leonard Charles Smithers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1, page 194:

     O may the raven-bird whose cry our hapless parting croaked / Find ne'er a nesty home and eke shed all his plumery!

References

• “plumery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.