pull someone's plumes

Meaning: (idiomatic,obsolete)Tohumble, topuncturetheprideofc.1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great.[…]The First Part[…], 2nd edition, part 1, London:[…][R. Robinson for]Richard Iones,[…], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great(A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act I, scene i:thatTamburlaine:That like a Foxe in midſt of harueſt time,Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers:And as I heare, doth meane topull my plumes[…]1591(date written),William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii],page108, column 2:Let frantikeTalbottriumph for a while,And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle,Wee’lepull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne,If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.1647,John Fletcher,A Wife for a Month, act V, scene i:How I ſhallpull your Plumes, Lords,How I ſhall humble you within theſe two Days?

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