PANACHE Definition & Meaning

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panache

[ puh-nash, -nahsh ]

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noun

a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair:
The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache.
an ornamental plume of feathers, tassels, or the like, especially one worn on a helmet or cap.
Architecture. the surface of a pendentive.

panache

/ -ˈnɑːʃ; pəˈnæʃ /

noun

a dashing manner; style; swagger
he rides with panache
a feathered plume on a helmet

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of panache¹

First recorded in 1545–55; variant (after French ) of pennache, from Middle French, from early Italian pennachio, from Late Latin �辱�Բ��峦�ܱ��ܳ�, diminutive of pinna “wing”; identical in form with �辱�Բ��峦�ܱ��ܳ� “roof gable, peak”; pinnacle

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of panache¹

C16: via French from Old Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin �辱�Բ��峦�ܱ��ܳ� feather, from Latin pinna feather; compare Latin �辱�Բ��峦�ܱ��ܳ� pinnacle

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This media can’t be boring or overly wonky — it must speak in popular vernaculars with style and panache.

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He has no imagination in his criminality; no panache, no style, no originality.

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A showman who, as the author of “The Colored Museum,” was fully at home in more abstract realms of playwriting, he knew how to balance radical theatricality with more conventional storytelling panache.

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With panache, patience, technical assurance, and explosive strokes, he looks poised to become Kohli's successor as the team's talisman.

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Author Pandora Skyes wrote: "Butter will churn your brain and your stomach with panache."

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