Panache vs. Style — What's the Difference?

Panache (French pronunciation: ​[panaʃ]) is a word of French origin that carries the connotation of flamboyant manner and reckless courage, derived from the helmet-plume worn by cavalrymen in the Early Modern period.The literal translation is a plume, such as is worn on a hat or a helmet; the reference is to King Henry IV of France (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), a pleasure-loving and cynical military leader, famed for wearing a striking white plume in his helmet and for his war cry: "Follow my white plume!" (French: "Ralliez-vous à mon panache blanc!").

A particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way

Dash; verve.

A distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed

A bunch of feathers or a plume, especially on a helmet.

Fashionable elegance and sophistication

(countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.

(in a flower) a narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma.

Flamboyance, energetic style or action.

(in an invertebrate) a small, slender pointed appendage; a stylet.

A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

Archaic term for stylus (sense 2)

A pleasingly flamboyant style or manner; flair{4}; verve.

Design or make in a particular form

Distinctive and stylish elegance;

Designate with a particular name, description, or title

A feathered plume on a helmet

The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed

The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.

Sort; type

A quality of imagination and individuality expressed in one's actions and tastes

A comfortable and elegant mode of existence

A mode of living

The fashion of the moment, especially of dress; vogue

A particular fashion

A customary manner of presenting printed material, including usage, punctuation, spelling, typography, and arrangement

A name or title

An implement used for etching or engraving.

A slender pointed writing instrument used by the ancients on wax tablets.

The needle of a phonograph.

The gnomon of a sundial.

(Botany) The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.

(Zoology) A slender, tubular, or bristlelike process

(Medicine) A surgical probing instrument; a stylet.

(Obsolete) A pen.

To design or fashion in a certain way

To arrange (hair) in a certain way, as by cutting, coloring, or curling.

To call or name; designate

To make consistent with rules of style

Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

(historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.

A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.

The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.

(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

(surgery) A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.

(zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.

(by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.

A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.

A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.

A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.

A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.

(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.

A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.

(transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)

To call or give a name or title to.

To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.

To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.

A pen; an author's pen.

Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.

A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.

A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.

A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.

Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.

The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.

A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.

A particular kind (as to appearance);

How something is done or how it happens;

A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period;

Distinctive and stylish elegance;

The popular taste at a given time;

(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving;

A slender bristlelike or tubular process;

Designate by an identifying term;

Make consistent with a certain fashion or style;

Make consistent with certain rules of style;