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Confidence with a plume on it — style so bold the substance stops mattering.

means A flamboyant, swaggering style or flair that makes whatever you're doing look effortlessly impressive.

from From French panache, meaning a plume or tuft of feathers — specifically the kind worn on a helmet. The word traces back to Italian pennacchio and ultimately Latin penna, 'feather.' The literal plume became a figure of speech: a showy feather was the visible mark of a dashing soldier or courtier, so by the 19th century 'panache' had come to mean the dash and swagger itself, feather optional.

origin
French for a tuft of feathers on a helmet
coined meaning
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano made it a virtue
not
skill; it is skill's flashier cousin
best used
describing exits, not spreadsheets
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