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Undemonstrative vs Panache - What's the difference?

undemonstrative | panache |

As an adjective undemonstrative

is not given to showing emotion or feelings; reserved or distant.

As a noun panache is

an ornamental plume on a helmet.

undemonstrative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not given to showing emotion or feelings; reserved or distant

    • panache

    English

    (wikipedia panache)

    Noun

  • (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
  • * 1896 — , Chapter 4
    • 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.
  • (uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
  • * 1894 —
    • 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, verve