empanaché
French, adjective
empanaché is a French adjective meaning “plumed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of empanacher. Without its accent, empanache is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garni d’un panache”.
What does empanaché mean in English?
adjective
- 1
plumed
verb
- 1
past participle of empanacher
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Garni d’un panache.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of empanaché
- empanachée feminine
- empanachés masculine plural
- empanachées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is empanaché in French?
empanaché appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).