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She joked in a British Film Institute conversation that Dame Judi Dench often snagged the plumiest roles before they came to her and other actors of her caliber.

The golden retriever waits, “his tail a plumy metronome.”

They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds.

On a recent afternoon, a musty-smelling chicken coop in the garden’s rear turned into a plumy snow globe as a gardener shuffled in and out.

Her character, Carol Barrett, is an agent for the F.B.I. whose reddish wig, plumy lashes and cavalcade of weary sighs and devastating deadpan stares are among the movie’s best special effects.