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the worthless word for the day is: plumeopicean
[f. L. plume-us, feathery + pice-us, pitchy + -an]
humorous nonce-word composed of tar and feathers
(alluding to the practice of tarring and feathering
an obnoxious person)
"I will appear on my knees at the bar of the Pennsyl-
vanian Senate in the plumeopicean robe of American
controversy."
- Sydney Smith, letter "On American Debts" [1843]
"Those whom it proposed to teach would destroy the
types, and invest the compositors with the
plumeopicean robe of the republican Nemesis."
- Saturday Review, 7 Dec. 1861
so someone who is consistently mantled could be said to be cloaked with the ~ robe?
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