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piuma
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Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
piuma f (plural piume)
- feather, plume
- 1851, Giuseppe Verdi, “La donna è mobile”, in Rigoletto:
- La donna è mobile qual piuma al vento, muta d'accento e di pensiero.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (in the plural) down
- plumage
Derived terms
- gommapiuma (“foam rubber”)
- piumaggio (“plumage”)
- piumato (“feathered, plumed”)
- piumetta (“plumule”)
- piumoso (“feathery; plumose”)
- spiumare (“to pluck (feathers); to fleece, rip off”)
- superpiuma (“super featherweight”)
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