Definition of PANACHE

panache

Plural: panaches

Noun

  • A distinctive, flamboyant, and stylish manner or confidence.
  • distinctive and stylish elegance
  • a feathered plume on a helmet
  • An ornamental plume on a helmet.
  • Flamboyance, energetic style or action.

Examples

  • She played her seven-letter word with such PANACHE, the tiles seemed to glow.

Origin / Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.

Scrabble Score: 14

panache: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
panache: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
panache: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

panache: valid Words With Friends Word