Panache is stylish confidence in the way you do things. With great panache, a certain panache, panache and flair.
It is about manner rather than result, so something done with panache was done well and visibly enjoyed. The French word means a plume of feathers on a helmet, and pinnacle is a relative.
1nounpanacheStylish confidence in the way you do things.
“She wore the bright red hat with such panache that everyone wanted one.”
panache is a style.
French pennache means a plume of feathers, from Latin pinnaculum; pinnacle is a doublet.
Latin
pinnāculum
Italian
pennacchio
Middle French
pennache — plume of feathers
French
panache
English, today
panache
French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Latin pinnāculum. a doublet of pinnacle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA