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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