panache

A helmet with panache (1)

Meaning

Noun

An ornamental plume on a helmet.
Flamboyance, energetic style or action.

Origin

Borrowed from French panache, from Middle French pennache ("plume of feathers"), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. pinnacle.

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