panache

 

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /pəˈnæʃ/, /pəˈnɑːʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

panache (countable and uncountable, plural panaches)

1. (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.

   Synonyms: hackle, plume, plumage

   • 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 4, in The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard:

     I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.

2. (uncountable, figurative) Flamboyance, energetic style or action.

   Synonyms: dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve

   • 1894, Kate Chopin, “At the 'Cadian Ball”, in Bayou Folk:

     One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.

   • 1988 December 11, Thomas M. Disch, “Lost in Cyberspace”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Cyberpunk caters to the wish-fulfillment requirements of male teen-agers, but this is a job that can be done with varying degrees of panache, and there is currently no more accomplished caterer than William Gibson.

•   panache on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Inherited from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), borrowed from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinacle.

• IPA^(key): /pa.naʃ/

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panache m (plural panaches)

1. (also figurative) panache
2. (Canada) the bulk of antlers of deer and moose
3. column or plume of smoke (cloud of smoke)

• (flamboyant style): flamboyance, verve, brio, bravoure

• → English: panache
• → Italian: panache
• → Romanian: panaș

• “panache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
•   panache on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• épancha

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, itself from Italian pennacchio.

panache m (invariable)

1. (fashion) panache (ornamental plumage)

   Synonym: pennacchio

• panache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana