{"id":7095,"date":"2012-06-08T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:50:03","slug":"panache-pegs-and-pinafores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7095","title":{"rendered":"Panache, pegs and pinafores"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing we discussed last night at the French Conversation Group<\/a> was whether panache<\/strong> means the same thing in French as it does in English. <\/p>\n

According to the OED<\/a>, panache [\/p\u0259\u02c8na\u0283\/ (UK) \/p\u0259\u02c8n\u00e6\u0283\/ (USA)] comes from the Middle French pennache<\/em>, which originally meant a tuft or plume of feathers, and by the late 19th century had come to mean “manly elegance or swagger, chivalrous or heroic courage, flamboyance, elegance, style”. <\/p>\n

Pennache<\/em> comes from the Italian pennacchio<\/em> (plume), from the post-classical Latin pinn\u0101culum<\/em>, a dimmunitive of pinna<\/em> (wing, feather, pointed peak), which comes from the Proto-Indo-European *bend-<\/em> (something protruding). Other words that possibly come from the same root include pin, peg, pinafore, pinion and pinacle.<\/p>\n

According to Le Dictionnaire<\/a>, the French word panache<\/strong> means:<\/p>\n

– ornement compos\u00e9 de plumes flottantes, plac\u00e9 sur une coiffure = an ornament of floating feathers worn on the head
\n– \u00e9l\u00e9ment qui rappelle la forme de cet ornement = something resembling such an ornament
\n– surface triangulaire du pendentif d’une vo\u00fbte en forme de sph\u00e8re = a triangular area of a roof pendant in the shape of a sphere
\n– (au sens figur\u00e9) \u00e9l\u00e9gance et brio = (figuratively) elegance and panache<\/p>\n

According to Reverso<\/a>, panache<\/strong> can also mean:
\n– a plume (of smoke\/water) = une panache (de fum\u00e9e\/d’eau)
\n– showiness<\/p>\n

Some examples:
\n– avec panache = gallantly
\n– sans panache = unimpressive <\/p>\n

A related word is panach\u00e9<\/strong>, which means:<\/p>\n

– d\u00e9cor\u00e9 de couleurs vari\u00e9es = decorated with various colours \/ varigated \/ colourful
\n– compos\u00e9 de diff\u00e9rents \u00e9l\u00e9ments = made up of different parts \/ mixed
\n– boisson qui est compos\u00e9e de bi\u00e8re et de limonade = shandy (a mixture of beer\/lager and lemonade)<\/p>\n

Some examples:
\n– glace panach\u00e9e = mixed ice cream
\n– salade panach\u00e9e = mixed salad
\n– \u0153illet panach\u00e9 = variegated carnation <\/p>\n

The verb panacher<\/strong> (to mix) also exists.<\/p>\n

An alternative way to say ‘with great panache’ is avec maestria<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing we discussed last night at the French Conversation Group was whether panache means the same thing in French as it does in English. According to the OED, panache [\/p\u0259\u02c8na\u0283\/ (UK) \/p\u0259\u02c8n\u00e6\u0283\/ (USA)] comes from the Middle French pennache, which originally meant a tuft or plume of feathers, and by the late 19th century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,128,10,15,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}