Panache

Definition: Panache

Panache

Noun

1. Distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer".

2. A feathered plume on a helmet.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "panache" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Panache \Pa*nache"\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression penna feather. See Pen feather.]. (references)

Synonyms: Panache

Ornament

Tassel, knot; shoulder knot, apaulette, epaulet, aigulet, frog; star, rosette, bow; feather, plume, pompom, panache, aigrette.

Roughness

Plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee.

Crosswords: Panache

French (panache, plume).

Sidonie panache (1934)

Panache (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Harmony, discord, and panache : a centennial history of the Music Teachers' Association of California (reference)

• Panache (reference)

• Panache and the Art of Faking It (reference)

• Panache at Rose Hill (reference)

• Panache Litteraire (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• PDA Panache Custom Palm III Stylus (Black) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

pupël (down, eider down, feather, feathering, plumage, plume, quill, shuttlecock, vane), stil (class, cut, fashion, genre, hand, make, manner, pattern, style). (various references)

Arabic 

‏البناش حزمة زينية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

самоувереност (aplomb, assurance, assuredness, boldness, cool, poise, self confidence, self-assurance), замах (dash, snap, swing, swish, swoop, verve), показност (ostentation, speciosity, theatricality), плюмаж (aigrette, crest, plume). (various references)

French

panache. (various references)

German

prahlerei (boast, boastfulness, boasting, brag, bragging, fanfaronade, grandiloquence, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pretension, rodomontade, showing off, swank, vainglory, vaporing, vapouring), schwung (accent, batch, bounce, brandished, bunch, buoyancy, crop, dash, emphasis, energy, flourish, ginger, go, gusto, impetus, leap, momentum, motion, oomph, pep, pile, raciness, snap, spirit, sweep, swing, verve, vivacity, zap, zest, zip), Grosstürei, großtuerei (boasting, bragging, ostentation, showing off), Großtürei, federbusch (crest, plume), elan (buoyancy, dash, elan, pep, spirit, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vims, zest). (various references)

Greek 

καμάρι (pride, son). (various references)

Hungarian

magabiztosság (assertiveness, cock-sureness, confidence, nerve, self-assertion, self-assurance, self-confidence). (various references)

Italian

pennacchio (plume, tassel). (various references)

Manx

froaish (brag, egotism, swagger, swank). (various references)

Pig Latin

anachepay.(various references)

Portuguese

penacho (aigrette, crest, egret, topknot, tuft), topete (axle pin, cowlick, effrontery, forelock, topknot, tuft), fanfarronada (fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, hot air, leg pull, rodomontade, roistering, swagger), cocar (cockade). (various references)

Romanian

pompon (pompon, tuft), panaş (aigrette, crest), surguci. (various references)

Russian 

рисовка, плюмаж (feather, plume). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

polet (pep, upswing, verve, zest, zip), perjanica (crest, plume), elan (dash, elan, enthusiasm, verve). (various references)

Spanish

lustre (brilliance, brilliancy, glaze, glitter, gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, polish, sheen, shoe cream, shoe polish, shoeblacking, shoeshine), estilo (delivery, design, gnomon, idiom, language, league, look, manner, needle, phrasing, register, stroke, style, stylus, wording). (various references)

Swedish

stil (chic, dash, diction, fineness, flair, genre, hand writing, manner, print, style, tone, touch, vein), glans (brightness, brilliancy, burnish, eclat, glare, glaze, glitter, glory, gloss, lambency, lustre, polish, pride, resplendence, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour). (various references)

Turkish

sorguç (aigrette, comb, crest, egret, hood, osprey, topknot, tuft), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering), caka (air, airs, gimmickry, ostentation, show off, showing off, swagger). (various references)

Ukrainian

хизування, плюмаж (aigrette, feather, plume). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự huênh hoang (spread), điệu b (minikin). (various references)

pinnaculum. (various references)

pennache. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "panache": panaches. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Panache" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anbacher, Bannach, ganouche, manichee, palache, panacae, panace, panacfhe, panach, panaches, panacne, panasche, Pancha, panche, panice, Pannekoek, panoche, Pecanha, penace, Penacev, penache, Peniche, pinache, Sanakham. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: apache, canape, pechan.

-2 letters: apace, apnea, chape, cheap, hance, pacha, paean, peach, pecan.

-3 letters: ache, acne, cane, cape, caph, chap, each, epha, haen, heap, nape, neap, paca, pace, pane, pean, pech.

-4 letters: aah, ace, aha, ana, ane, ape, can, cap, cep, hae, hap, hen, hep, nae, nah, nap, pac, pah, pan, pea, pec, peh.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: panaches.

+2 letters: champagne, encephala, marchpane, panchaxes.

+3 letters: antechapel, champagnes, chapfallen, marchpanes, parenchyma, phenacaine.

+4 letters: anencephaly, antechapels, chaperonage, diencephala, handicapped, handicapper, hypercapnia, ipecacuanha, parenchymal, parenchymas, phenacaines.

+5 letters: alphanumeric, amphisbaenic, analphabetic, anencephalic, antipathetic, chaperonages, chaplaincies, handicappers, happenchance, happenstance, hypercapnias, ipecacuanhas, mesencephala, metencephala, oceanography, parenchymata, telencephala.