panache – French noun declension

French noun forms of panache

Noun: panache
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mpanache
Plural mpanaches

Sample Sentences

  • CYRANO: […] Oui, vous m'arrachez tout, le laurier et la rose ! / Arrachez ! Il y a malgré vous quelque chose / Que j'emporte, et ce soir, quand j'entrerai chez Dieu, / Mon salut balaiera largement le seuil bleu, / Quelque chose que sans un pli, sans une tache, / J'emporte malgré vous, / (Il s'élance l'épée haute): / et c'est. . . / (L'épée s'échappe de ses mains, il chancelle, tombe dans les bras de Le Bret et de Ragueneau.)
  • ROXANE (se penchant sur lui et lui baisant le front): / C'est ?. . .
  • CYRANO (rouvre les yeux, la reconnaît et dit en souriant): / Mon panache. (CYRANO: […] You strip from me the laurel and the rose! / Take all! Despite you there is yet one thing / I hold against you all, and when, to-night, / I enter Christ’s fair courts, and, lowly bowed, / Sweep with doffed casque the heavens’ threshold blue, / One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch, / I bear away despite you. / (He springs forward, his sword raised; it falls from his hand; he staggers, falls back into the arms of Le Bret and Ragueneau.)
  • ROXANE (bending and kissing his forehead): ’Tis?. . .
  • CYRANO (opening his eyes, recognizing her, and smiling): / My panache.) [1897, Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Act V, Scene 5.VI:]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), borrowed from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinacle. See: Italian Nouns 'pennacchio'.

Verbs referencing "panache"

English Nouns panacherie.

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