pluming
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pluming
- present participle and gerund of plume
Noun edit
pluming (plural plumings)
- The act by which something is plumed.
- 1887, Grace King, Bayou L'Ombre: An Incident of the War:
- If their secluded hearts ventured even in thought towards the plumings natural to their age, their coarse, homely, ill-fitting garments anathematized any coquettish effort or naive expression of a desire to find favor.