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n. - A long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume.

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  • An aigret in her hair twinkled knowingly above her coarse, painted face.
  • "Lads, that Seminole was carryin 'around on him over five hundred dollars' worth of white and pink aigret plumes."
  • On either side of the table sat his son and daughter, the latter handsomer than Faraday had ever seen her, her heavy dress of ivory-tinted silk no whiter than her neck, a...
  • However, the man who took things in hand was Azeemoolah Khan, a tall, handsome, light-skinned exquisite in a cloth-of-gold coat and with a jewelled aigret in his turban,...
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