"pull someone's plumes" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: pulls someone's plumes [present, singular, third-person], pulling someone's plumes [participle, present], pulled someone's plumes [participle, past], pulled someone's plumes [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pull someone's plumes (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's plumes, present participle pulling someone's plumes, simple past and past participle pulled someone's plumes)
  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To humble, to puncture the pride of Tags: idiomatic, obsolete
    Sense id: en-pull_someone's_plumes-en-verb-LB-HoDfm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:",
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