[pluːm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament
(e.g: a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume)

- a long cloud of smoke or vapour resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin
(e.g: as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath)

- a localized column of hotter magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in locations away from plate margins


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Origin:
Old English plum- (in compounds), from Latin pluma ‘down’; subsequently reinforced by Old French plume

[pluːm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- spread out in a shape resembling a feather
(e.g: smoke plumed from the chimneys)

- (of a bird) preen itself


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Origin:
Old English plum- (in compounds), from Latin pluma ‘down’; subsequently reinforced by Old French plume