plumate
[ploo-meyt, -mit]
/ ˈplu meɪt, -mɪt /
ADJECTIVE
downy
Synonyms
Example Sentences
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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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