panache

Borrowed from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Latin pinnaculum.

• (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.
   • 1896 — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, Chapter 4

     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) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
   • 1894 — Kate Chopin, Bayou Folk, At the 'Cadian Ball

     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.

• (ornament on a helmet): hackle, plume, plumage
• (flamboyant style): dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve

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. panache (all senses)
2. (Canada) the bulk of antlers of deer and moose

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

• “panache” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• épancha

Borrowed from French panache, itself from Italian pennacchio.

panache m (invariable)

1. panache

• pennacchio