plume
noun
[ pluːm ]
• a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament.
• "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.
• "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.
plume
verb
• spread out in a shape resembling a feather.
• "smoke plumed from the chimneys"
• (of a bird) preen itself.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pluma ‘down’.
