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Panache

2 stages from Italian/French to English.

Today it means flamboyant confidence of style or manner
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Stage 1 of 2
pennache
Italian/French · medieval
"a feather plume"
a plume of feathers worn on a helmet, from Latin pinna (feather)
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Stage 2 of 2
panache
English · 1500s
"flamboyant confidence and stylishness"
broadened from the literal plume to flamboyant confidence and style
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