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panache|pəˈnɑːʃ, -æ-|
Also 6 pannach, 6–7 pinnach, 7 penache, -ashe, 7–8 pannache, 7–9 pennache, 8 panashe, (-ack).
[a. F. panache, ad. It. pennacchio, deriv. of penna feather.]
1. a. A tuft or plume of feathers, esp. when used as a head-dress or an ornament for a helmet; † hence extended to ornaments of similar appearance, as a tassel.
1553in Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 113 A little pinnach of white Ostrich feathers. 1585James I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 43 Like as ane hors, when he is barded haile, An fethered pannach set vpon his heid, Will make him seame more braue. 1601Holland Pliny I. 270 Their feathers so faire, that they serue for pennaches. 1651Evelyn Diary 7 Sept., He had in his cap a pennach of heron. 1669Sir P. Wyche Short Rel. River Nile (1798) 40 The tail is worn by children for a Penashe. 1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 133 Like to a Panack it covers my Face. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xvii. 31 This bird [the cockatoo] is crowned with a panashe or bunch of feathers. 1819H. Busk Vestriad i. 428 The tow'ring panache sweeps the chalky floor. a1848Sir S. Meyrick in Cussans Her. vi. (1882) 94 The distinction between the Panache and Plume is, that the former was fixed on the top of a Helmet, while the latter was placed behind, in front, or on the side.
b. Astron. A plume-like solar protuberance.
1887Lockyer Chem. of Sun 441 At the poles there is an exquisite tracery curved in opposite directions, consisting of plumes or panaches.
c. Comb., as panache-crest.
1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xvii. §2 (ed. 3) 267 The Garter-Plates..display panache-crests.
2. fig. Display, swagger, verve.
1898Thomas & Guillemard tr. Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac v. vi. 294 Cyrano... One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch, I bear away despite you... Roxane... 'Tis?... Cyrano... My panache. 1900J. T. Grein Dramatic Crit. (1902) III. 65 No one displayed that ‘panache’ which is the paramount demand of romantic comedy. 1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman p. xxxi, Shakespear..never conceived how any man who was not a fool could, like Bunyan's hero..with the panache of a millionaire, bequeath ‘my sword to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it’. 1932R. Fry Characteristics French Art iii. 53 In real life the fun of soldiering, its bustle, its swagger, its panache, sometimes leads to being mutilated. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches iii. vi. 370 His must have been, I think, an engaging character, a mixture of southern panache, rustic guile, and a childlike desire to please. 1960D. Walker Where High Winds Blow ii. viii. 117 Mac wore his flying clothes, the half-laced boots and the old suède jacket; but with his clean blue shirt and a silk handkerchief knotted at his neck, he had a workaday panache. 1972D. Francis Smokescreen v. 58 A certain panache about him, but also some of the ruthless cynicism of experienced journalists. 1976New Yorker 22 Mar. 128/3 When he did join the Maquis, late in March, 1944, Malraux exhibited his customary panache. 1978Listener 12 Jan. 49/1 He plays the piano with panache, but cannot read music. |
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