Panache vs Opulence - What's the difference?
panache | opulence |
(countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
* 1896 — , Chapter 4
(uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
* 1894 —
wealth
abundance, bounty, profusion
Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
And his proud Fancy held a va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .
As nouns the difference between panache and opulence
is that panache is an ornamental plume on a helmet while opulence is wealth.panache
English
(wikipedia panache)Noun
- I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
- One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.
Synonyms
* (ornament on a helmet) hackle, plume, plumage * (flamboyant style) dash, flamboyance, swagger, verveopulence
English
Noun
(-)Quotations
* 1721 , (John Gay), A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Gold?mith, near Temple-Bar; Occa?ion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Sub?criptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thou?and per Cent'', published in 1733 in ''Miscellanies , volume 3,page 239: *: There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
And his proud Fancy held a va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .
