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de·plu·ma·tion

(dē′plōō-mā′shən)

The falling out or loss of the eyelashes.

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Although Blowitz was a man of humble Bohemian origins who had rather ostentatiously used the name of his native village after the noble-sounding "de" to create his nom deplume, his ego and political connections made him a "player" in the proceedings at Berlin.

Bismarck and Blowitz at the Congress of Berlin

The Argentine writer and politician Gustavo Martinez Zuviria, whose nom deplume was Hugo Wast (1883-1962), was a fervent anti-Semite and Franco supporter whose books sold literally millions of copies.

I hear, therefore I know: post-dictatorial traumatic expression and Death and the Maiden

While the nora deplume Forrest Carter cannot provide answers to questions of Native identity, the authorial figure Asa Carter abounds with insights into the workings of Southern identity in literature.

Claiming the unclaimable: Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree, and land claim in the Native South

46-48; Munk Olsen, Birger, L'etude des auteurs classiques latins auxxf etxif siecles, II: Catalogue des manuscrits classiques latins copies au IXe au XIIe siecle: Livius-Vitruvius; Florilegesessais deplume, Paris, 1985, p.

Visigothic poetry in the Mediaeval school: Carolingian florilegia, glossaries and scholia/Poesia visigotica en la escuela Medieval: florilegios, glosarios y escolios carolingios

Later she wrote to Victor Hugo, interpreting his brief and gallant reply as encouragement, and she adopted Rachilde as a nom deplume based on an encounter at a seance with the ghost of a Swedish nobleman with a name that sounds more Algerian than Scandinavian.

Hawthorne, Melanie C. Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism

Gordon is now a white-collar crimefighter (she does most of her crime-busting through computers) who uses the nom deplume of Oracle.