panache – English noun declension

English noun forms of panache

Noun: panache
Singularpanache
Pluralpanaches

Sample Sentences

  • I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me. [1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 4, in The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard:]
  • One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had. [1894, Kate Chopin, “At the 'Cadian Ball”, in Bayou Folk:]
  • Cyberpunk caters to the wish-fulfillment requirements of male teen-agers, but this is a job that can be done with varying degrees of panache, and there is currently no more accomplished caterer than William Gibson. [1988 December 11, Thomas M. Disch, “Lost in Cyberspace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • It was a tantalizing promise, delivered with Donald Trump’s trademark panache: As dealmaker in chief, he would quickly end world conflicts that had defied his predecessors and their nattily dressed legions of career diplomats. [2025 April 24, Ned Temko, “Trump’s ‘quick fix’ approach to diplomacy slow to yield results”, in The Christian Science Monitor:]
  • It takes serious chutzpah for an American to bring a film abour the French New Wave to Cannes but [Richard] Linklater pulls it off with considerable comic panache and affection. [2025 May 24, Raphael Abraham, “In Godard we trust”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:]

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle. See: Italian Nouns 'pennacchio'.