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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan, flair, panache, style]
2: a feathered plume on a helmet

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French pennache, from Old Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnaculum small wing — more at pinnacle Date: 1553 1. an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet 2. dash or flamboyance in style and action ; verve

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 assertiveness or flamboyant confidence of style or manner. 2 hist. a tuft or plume of feathers, esp. as a head-dress or on a helmet. Etymology: F f. It. pennacchio f. LL pinnaculum dimin. of pinna feather

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Panache Pa*nache", n. [F., fr. L. penna a feather. See Pen a feather.] A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers. A panache of variegated plumes. --Prescott.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you do something with panache, you do it in a confident, stylish, and elegant way. The BBC Symphony Orchestra played with great panache... = flair

Moby Thesaurus

animation, blatancy, boldness, brazenness, brio, chic, colorfulness, crest, crudeness, cultivation, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, eclat, elan, energy, enthusiasm, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, feather, flagrancy, flair, flamboyance, flashiness, flourish, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, glare, glitter, good taste, gorgeousness, gusto, hackle, jauntiness, jazziness, liveliness, loudness, luridness, meretriciousness, obtrusiveness, pinion, plume, plumule, quill, savoir faire, scapular, self-assurance, sensationalism, shamelessness, showiness, smartness, sophistication, spirit, sportiness, style, swagger, tawdriness, topknot, tuft, verve, vigor, vulgarness, zest