The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
adj. Resembling a plume or feather.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In entomology, resembling a plume: said of a hair or bristle when it bears smaller hairs.
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adj. having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft
Word Usage
"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."