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- noun The state or quality of being
plummy .
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Examples
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It has the warmth that you'd expect from a Central European orchestra, but on Wednesday, there was nothing plummy about it, even in a piece such as the Brahms Second Symphony, which might encourage plumminess.
Daniel Harding conducts Dresden Staatskapelle with uneven hand Anne Midgette 2010
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The treats continue in the flavors, where raisin and fig notes complement the opulent plumminess of the wine.
Friday Nights IN: Basque Food and Argentinian Wine for a Crowd 2009
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The treats continue in the flavors, where raisin and fig notes complement the opulent plumminess of the wine.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Parfum has the richness that is almost gourmand in its smoky, ripe plumminess.
Love Not At First Sniff: Anne Pliska, Coco Mademoiselle. Coromandel Marina Geigert 2008
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Parfum has the richness that is almost gourmand in its smoky, ripe plumminess.
Archive 2008-01-01 Marina Geigert 2008
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Felicity tried -- and had the most gratifying luck with -- a new and complicated cake recipe -- a gorgeous compound of a plumminess to make your mouth water.
The Story Girl 1908
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But plumminess is plumminess still, and it is the plumminess of "Dumasity" which we are here to talk of, and that only -- the quality, not the man.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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The treats continue in the flavors, where raisin and fig notes complement the opulent plumminess of the wine.
Good Wine Under $20 2009
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