What Is the Dictionary Definition of Panache

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Dash; verve.
• noun A bunch of feathers or a plume, especially on a helmet.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In architecture, the triangular surface of a pendentive.
• noun A plume as worn in a hat or helmet or in a woman's hair; especially, in medieval armor, a massive group of feathers set erect, often used as a heraldic bearing.
• noun In zoology, a tuft, bunch, or cluster of hairs, feathers, or the like; a scopula; a panicle.
• noun In astronomy, a tuft-like solar protuberance of eruption.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
• noun A pleasingly flamboyant style or manner; flair{4}; verve.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable An ornamental plume on a helmet.
• noun uncountable Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun distinctive and stylish elegance
• noun a feathered plume on a helmet

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, plume, verve, from Italian pinnacchio, plume, from Late Latin pinnāculum, diminutive of Latin pinna, feather, wing; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache ("plume of feathers"), from Italian pennacchio, from Latin pinnaculum.

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Examples

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• But what his style may have lacked in panache, it certainly made up in passion.

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• But what his style may have lacked in panache, it certainly made up in passion.

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• Above the helmet is a large plume of white feathers called a panache -- the origin of our modern word.

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• I took some time to look at the new models on display, and while the new cars are dazzling with their electronic wizardry and sleek forms, these cars seem to be lacking a certain panache, a flair for style.

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What Is the Dictionary Definition of Panache

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