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Scarlet plume   /skˈɑrlət plum/   Listen
Scarlet plume

noun
1.
Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers.  Synonym: Euphorbia fulgens.






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"Scarlet plume" Quotes from Famous Books



... in vain to catch a glimpse of some feminine figure in the small suburban garden. No flutter of scarlet petticoat or flash of scarlet plume revealed the ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... progress a meeting of the doctors. In the door of the enclosure squatted Kawa Kendi, with Kingata Mata in attendance tending the royal fires. Before him, in front of their fellows, were seated Bakahenzie and Marufa in full dress of green feathers and the scarlet plume. The left side of the idol, which was so set that the shadow never fell upon the entrance to the compound, was gilded by the sun; the mouth grinned in one corner, one eye was closed in shadow, ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle



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