pull someone's plumes

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(no longer used) To humble, to puncture the pride of
- that Tamburlaine: That like a Foxe in midst of haruest time, Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers: And as I heare, doth meane to pull my plumes […] — 1587

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