- 1羽毛（鳥全身羽毛的總稱）；羽衣
Plumage is all the feathers on a bird, thought of as one coat, not as single feathers. We use it when we care about the look of the whole bird — bright plumage, winter plumage, breeding plumage (the special coat some birds grow when they are ready to find a mate). A ’s plumage is the famous fan; a ’s plumage is plain brown. Scientists and nature writers use the word more than everyday people, who often just say feathers. You would not normally call one fallen feather plumage. Though actually, the word is about the set, and about how that set looks, more than about the stuff itself.
組成plume (a feather) + -age (a set or a state). From French plumage, from plume + -age. Plume goes back to Latin pluma, a feather.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
plumagenoun/ˈpluːmɪd͡ʒ/
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyThe feathers covering the body of a bird collectively.
- Very fayre ⁊ hardy Hawkes [“Slauon Goshawkes”], large footed, very well penned, theyr downe and plumage excellent fine, their tungs blacke, and their nares large and wide.
- [T]he glad Bird [a dove] ſtayes all the day abroad, / And vvondrous proud that he a place had found, / […] / Bathing himſelfe, vvhich long he had not done, / And dryes his feathers in the vvelcome Sunne, / Pruning his plumage, clenſing euery quill, / And going back, he beareth in his bill / An Oliue leafe, by vvhich Noah vnderſtood / The great decreaſe and vvaning of the flood: […]
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archaicFeathers used ornamentally; feathering; (countable) a bunch or tuft of such feathers; a plume.
- [S]he could not but contrast the splendour of the Polish retinues and their plumages and draperies, with the strait-buttoned Prussian dignitaries, all in mere soldier uniform, succinct 'blue coat, white linen gaiters,' and no superfluity even in the epaulettes and red facings.
- 3
obsoletefalconryhobbieshuntingFeathers which are fed to a hawk to cause it to regurgitate, for the purpose of cleaning its crop; a type of casting.
- Euery night, after he hath fleen with his hawke the daye, either at the fielde, or brooke, he muſte giue his hawke caſting, ſomewhyles plumage, ſome other whiles pellets of Cotton, or ſuche like, and agayne, ſometimes ſome one medicine or other, according as by hir caſting, or mewte, he ſhall perceyue hir to ſtande needefull thereof, […]
- 4
A person's dress, especially when elaborate or fine.
- While she was thinking what to say, Marie gradually wiped away her tears, and smoothed her plumage in a general sort of way, as a dove might be supposed to make toilet after a shower, […]
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A person's external appearance, especially when showy.
- I have thought / Of thee, thy learning, gorgeous eloquence, / And all the strength and plumage of thy youth, […]
- This expression of liberality and confidence from a man of Major Bridgenorth's reserved and cautious disposition, gave full plumage to Mistress Deborah's hopes; […]
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