aigrette
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Other intriguing pieces included Chaumet’s narrow diamond tiara with a central opal, with an upstanding aigrette of white feathers rising from sapphire branches.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2012
The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept into each new party crowned with ostrich feathers, aigrette plumes, flowers and veiling.
From Time Magazine Archive
From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has a tail of more than two feet in length, almost like an aigrette, and singularly large.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 by Samuel de Champlain
