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Meaning of pull someone's plumes | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To humble, to puncture the pride of

idiomatic, obsolete

Examples

that Tamburlaine: That like a Foxe in midſt of harueſt time, Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers: And as I heare, doth meane to pull my plumes […]”
Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while, And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle, Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne, If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.”
How I ſhall pull your Plumes, Lords, How I ſhall humble you within theſe two Days?”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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