Definition of "plumate" [plumate]

• Resembling a plume or feather. (adjective)

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• "After breakfast he dusted the glass over these portraits himself with a cloth, and brushed the oil painting of his wife with a plumate kept suspended from a small brass hook by the side of the heavy gold frame."
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