Plume (noun)
pl-oom
A long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament. / A cloud of smoke or vapour.
Late Middle English from Old French, from Latin pluma ‘down’.
Example sentences
“A plume of smoke billowed from the tower.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
