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panache

n.
US //pəˈnɑʃ// UK //pɐnˈæʃ// panache
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Origin

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

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