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confidence with a plume on top — style so bold it doesn't need to work.
means a flamboyant, self-assured flair in how someone does something, more attitude than skill.
from french for the feather plume on a helmet — soldiers wore literal panache into battle, visible and reckless, so the word became swagger you could see from a distance.
literal meaningoriginally just meant feather or plume
popularized byedmond rostand's cyrano de bergerac, 1897
cyrano's last wordhe dies declaring panache his only possession
root wordfrom latin pinnaculum, a small feather