panache
pronunciation
How to pronounce panache in British English:
UK [pəˈnæʃ]
How to pronounce panache in American English:
US [pəˈnæʃ, -ˈnɑʃ]
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- Noun:
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a feathered plume on a helmet
Word Origin
- panache
- panache: see pin
- panache (n.)
- 1550s, "a tuft or plume of feathers," from Middle French pennache "tuft of feathers," from Italian pennaccio, from Late Latin pinnaculum "small wing, gable, peak" (see pinnacle). Figurative sense of "display, swagger" first recorded 1898 (in translation of "Cyrano de Bergerac"), from French.
Example
- 1. The problem was that he didn 't end his presentation with quite so much panache .
- 2. But not with the subtlety or panache that you or I would bring to the job .
- 3. A pickpocket needs poise , patience and panache
- 4. The film 's visual panache is strong enough to ambush doubters , whose scepticism will stumble into hidden nets and be hoisted high into the firmament .
- 5. David mitchell , a british novelist , has a reputation for courage and panache as a writer .