panache

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   flamboyant confidence of style or manner

   She delivered the closing speech with remarkable panache.

From French panache 'plume, tuft of feathers', from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnaculum 'small wing, peak', diminutive of Latin pinna 'feather, wing'. The figurative sense of flamboyant manner arose from the conspicuous plume worn on a helmet.

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