plumassier

A bird-stuffer is now a plumassier and taxidermist; and when I asked a waiter the meaning of "Phusitechnicon," which I read over a shop opposite his hotel, he told me it meant old china.

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

Among the earliest victims was the wife of the King's _plumassier_.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

There! "continued she," there goes my plumassier, with gilt spurs like a field-officer, and riding as importantly as if he were one of the Lords of the Treasury; or -- ah! there, again, is my banker's clerk, so stiff and so laced up, that he might pass for an Egyptian mummy -- the self-importance of these puppies is insufferable!

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823